Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (male)

Large Australian cockatoo, black feathers with large yellow behind each eye on male and female, red or pink eye ring in males, grey in females, yellow/cream bands across tail feathers more often seen in flight or as birds land or prepare for take off in trees. Black beak in males, blue/grey in females. Feeds on nuts or seeds extracted from pine cones or smaller cones of casuarina species of trees, also some banksia and Eucalypt seeds, insect larvae such as large grubs are also a food source as the birds tap and listen to movement within tree branches and trunks where grubs exist, the strong beaks can tear open the wood to extract the grub.