Cockatoo Care
| Cockatoo Information - Baudin's Cockatoo Other names: Threatened Status: It is scarce to moderately common (most numerous in deep south-west). Usually in flocks (up to 300). 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. |
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Baudin's Cockatoo
Breeding:
Nesting in hollows of karri, marri and wandoo trees. Eggs laid in October;
clutch 1-2 ( only one young reared ) and only the female incubates and broods
the chick.
Life span: 25 - 50 years.
Description:
Length 50-60 cm. Weight 560-770 g.
Adult male:
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.
Female:
Like male but differs in having the ear coverts yellowish white; bill greyish
with dark tip and eye skin grey.
Distribution:
Occurs in south-western humid and subhumid zones, north to Gidgegannup, east
to Mt Helena, Wandering, Quindanning, the Perup River, Lake Muir and King
River, and west to eastern strip of Swan Coastal Plain including West Midland,
Byford, North Dandalup, Yarloop, Wokalup and Bunbury also the Stirling and
Porongurup Ranges. It is endemic to Western Australia.
Habitat and food:
Southern eucalypt forests. Feeds on seeds of Marri, Banksia, Hakea and fruiting
apples and pears, also strips bark from dead trees in search of insects,
mainly beetle and borer larvae.
Threats to the species:
Clearing of forest, feral bees which take over nesting hollows and in the past
large numbers shot by orchardists.
Baudin's Cockatoo
References:
Johnstone R.E. and Storr.G.M. 1998 Handbook of Western Australian Birds. Volume
1 - Non-passerines (Emu to Dollarbird). Western Australian Museum pp. 278
-280.
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