Male: Dusky-brown with under tail-coverts brown-black. Tail has a broad band of bright-red through center, except for two central feathers. Cere, naked. Eye, dark-brown. There is a dark-grey, naked patch of skin around the eye. Bill, dark-grey. Feet and toes, dusky-grey.
Female: As male but has yellow patches on head and sides of neck. Tail band is red with varying amounts of yellow through it, and is barred black. Bill, dark-grey.
Immatures: Resemble adult female but young females may have sparse yellow spotting on wings and belly. In young males the tail is plain red barred black.
Downy Young: Densely, long, yellow-downed.
Other Names (World)
Glossy Black-Cockatoo, Glossy Cockatoo, Casuarine Cockatoo, Casuarina Cockatoo, Leach's Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Latham's Cockatoo, Nutcracker, Glossy Black Cockatoo
Found in coastal forest and open inland woodland in eastern Australia north to Mackay and south to Cocoparra and Strathbogie Ranges, wherever casuarinas are common. There is a small isolated population on Kangaroo Island.
Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) [XC507590]
by from The Pilliga, Narrabri Shire, New South Wales, Australia (call)
Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) [XC503216]
by Marc Anderson from Blue Mountains (near Blackheath), Blue Mountains City Council, New South Wales, Australia (begging call, click sounds made while extracting seeds from casuarina cones)
Similar Species
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), which is bigger, blacker with larger, helmet-like crest, and has a louder call.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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