When perched, vocabulary is more diverse and elaborate, with most notes having a similar tonal quality to flight calls. The commonest call, typically given in flight, is a rather high-pitched slurred squealing “kweEE-ah”. Removes seeds from orchard apples in the same way as seeds are extracted from marri, and in consequence species is sometimes regarded as a pest. It forages at all levels of the forest from the canopy to the ground, often feeding in the understorey on proteaceous trees and shrubs, especially Banksia, and in orchards both in trees and on dropped or fallen fruit on the ground. Also eats seeds of a variety of native plants ( Banksia, Dryandra), and insect larvae. The long upper mandible enables the extraction of large seeds from the large fruit of marri ( Eucalyptus calophylla) the fruit is held on the footĭuring seed extraction. The bulk of the population largely vacates in autumn the coldest parts of the range ( 2). Sometimes feeds in mixed flocks with Z. MovementĪfter breeding, family groups tend to coalesce and form larger flocks that may forage nomadically N and E beyond their breeding distribution. Less frequently found in other types of woodlands, partly cleared farmlands, and urban areas including roadside trees and house gardens. diversicolor), in zones of higher rainfall, averaging over 750 mm per year. Habitatīreeds in forests of jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata) and karri ( E. Subspeciesįorested extreme SW Western Australia in the region bounded by Perth, Albany, and Margaret R breeds in S of this range. Confusion over the bill size of the specimen used in the original description led to the proposal of race tenuirostris, but this name is shown to be synonymous with baud init. Present Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo species have also, on occasion, been lumped in Z.
Long considered conspecific with latter, but currently treated as separate species because ecology quite different, and a bill significantly longer ĭifficulty in field identification, compounded by a long history of conspecific treatment, has led to uncertainty regarding limits of range in the area of overlap, and to the publication of some inaccurate maps. 9 Conservation Status Systematics HistoryĬlosely related to Z.
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