![]() Breeding call a repeated low "arr" followed by a high-pitched whistle. The male makes a longer “kurweeeurr” often given as a duet. The female’s contact call is a short "whicher whicher" or "bunyip bunyip" flock call. Like the male, but differs in having the ear coverts a brighter yellowish white bill greyish with dark tip and eye skin grey. Mostly brownish black, the feathers edged with dusky white giving a scalloped appearance ear coverts dusky white white band towards tip of tail, broken in middle bill black bare skin around eye pink. Upper bill narrower and longer than Carnaby's Cockatoo. Eggs laid in August - December clutch 1–2 (only one young reared) and only the female incubates and broods the chick. ![]() ![]() Nesting in hollows of Karri, Marri and Wandoo trees. It has declined in the last 50 years, its low rate of reproduction (0.6 chick per year) precluding it from replacing the large numbers shot by orchardists. In the last 10 years (since 2016), there has been a dramatic decline in numbers recorded at traditional roosts sites. Mainly in flocks (up to 300 and occasionally larger aggregations of up to 1200 at roosts). It is scarce to moderately common (most numerous in deep south-west). "Endangered: under Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act". "Listed Endangered: Schedule 1 - Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act". Download Baudin's Cockatoo factsheet Other namesīaudin's Black Cockatoo and Long-billed Black Cockatoo.
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