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Little Corella
Cacatua sanguinea
-27.4984, 153.017
Field Notes
Description:
The Little Corella is a white cockatoo native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and is a member of the family Cacatuidae. It has a white body and bill, short crest, blue skin around eyes, pale pink patches between the eyes and bill, and yellow underwing and undertail. Flocks are often vast and noisy, consisting of up to several thousand birds.
Habitat:
Little Corellas often form large flocks, especially along watercourses and where seeding grasses are found. This pair was spotted by the freshwater lake at the University of Queensland Campus in Brisbane.
Notes:
This amorous little pair were quite happy to sit in the tree and show affection to one another. There were, however, a number of crows that kept interrupting. It started off as one crow, but then became four. The Little Corellas were soon driven from the tree, separated, and then pursued. What the crows had in mind is anyone's guess, but I can only assume that had these birds been fledglings, they would have been killed. Crows are 'not' my favourite birds! PS: I can see the limitations of my camera here. A lot of clarity is lost on full zoom, and it's not the strongest point of a pocket camera. C'est la vie.
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