![]() These cockatoos are sold in the pet trade and can be kept as a pet in large cage or aviary. It is the largest white cockatoo in Australia. The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white cockatoo with bright yellow crest. The male has a dark brown eye, the female has a reddish eye. The crest appears white when down, but shows bright red and yellow bands when raised. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo is an attractive white and pink cockatoo with a crest. There is a faint yellowish tinge on the undersides of the wings. It has a small crest that is usually folded flat. It has orange-red markings across forehead and across the throat. The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with long whitish bill. It is similar in appearance to the Western Corella, but is smaller (and much smaller than the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo). It has some pink feathers around the throat and bill. The Little Corella is a small white cockatoo with small crest. Juvenile Galahs have a grey breast and a grey eye-ring. Its crest varies from pink in Western Australia to white throughout the rest of Australia. The male has dark brown eye and female has red eye. The Galah is pale grey above and pink below. Logrunners, Whipbirds, Pittas, Lyrebirds.This includes the Jarrah Forests for mining bauxite and other minerals plus the Gnangara pines which the Ngolyenok/Carnaby’s Cockatoo depend on.Īn emergency plan must include increasing habitat restoration, improving fire management practices, and intervening to stop the shooting of Ngolak/Baudin’s Cockatoos by orchardists. We want the State Government to step in and initiate an immediate moratorium on the clearing of habitat until such time as their natural food habitat can be restored. The Urban Bushland Council has joined a coalition of Traditional Owners, peak conservation groups, and leading WA scientists who are calling on the WA State Government to initiate an emergency plan to save WA ’s threatened and endangered black cockatoos. Plant cockatoo food in your garden and encourage your council to plant cockatoo food trees in their reserves.įind a list of Plants Used by Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos here.īlack-Cockatoo Conservation and Recovery: Guidelines for councils and land managers (by Birdlife Australia) About the Save the Black Cockatoo Coalition ![]() Please share the message that Western Australia’s iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Please consider donating to Documentary Australia to bring Jane Hammond’s new film to the big screen. Support the Film – Black Cockatoo Crisis | Documentary Australia.Like and share the Save the Black Cockatoo facebook page – click here.Help us create a giant black cockatoo with candles at Parliament House as we hand over a petition to Hon Stephen Pratt MLC to Save the Black Cockatoos. Candlelit Vigil – Outside Parliament House.We need thousands of letters to get the Premier to act. Help spread the word by taking a picture of yourself with the WANTED ALIVE poster and sharing it with your family and friends. WANTED ALIVE – Help us spread the message – click here.We can live without the timber for now the black cockatoos cannot. Scientists say that removing the pines without replanting will cut their population in half by 2050. The Ngolyenok population in Perth has already declined by 35% over the last 10 years. Irresponsibly, there has been virtually no revegetation to replace the lost food source. But the Gnangara plantation is currently being chopped down and has been reduced from 23,000 hectares to under 6,000 hectares in 20 years. The Ngolyenoks in the Perth-Peel region are now reliant on a single pine plantation for half their food. The enormous loss of natural vegetation due to historical clearing has forced many black cockatoos to rely on gardens and plantations for food. Please write a letter to Premier Mark McGowan to delay the clearing of the Gnangara Pine Plantation which has become a lifeline for the Ngolyenoks (Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos). ![]() WANTED ALIVE – Email the Premier – click here.So, we all have a responsibility and an opportunity to safeguard these iconic birds – found nowhere else in the world – by protecting the forests, woodlands, and other habitat they need to survive.Īnd yet, our State Government is failing to protect important black cockatoo habitat and bird numbers continue to dwindle. Accelerated clearing for urban development, mining and logging is depleting both their food supply and the old trees with large hollows that they need for breeding. However, all 3 species have fallen drastically in number and could be extinct within a few decades without strong action to protect their remaining habitat. ![]() Western Australia’s southwest is home to 3 iconic species of black cockatoos: the Ngolyenok (Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo) the Ngolak (Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo) and the Karak (Forest Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo). But they need your help.
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