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Long-billed corella
Cacatua tenuirostris
-31.994, 115.752
Field Notes
Description:
White plumage with a reddish-pink face and forehead, a rim bluish skin around the eyes with a long pale beak and reddish-pink feathers on the breast and belly. 38 to 41 cm in length and wingspan of about 80–90 cm.
Habitat:
Spotted at Cottesloe beach area, Perth (Australia).
The long-billed corella can be found in the wild around western Victoria and southern New South Wales. Feral populations have sprung up in Sydney, Perth, Hobart and southeast Queensland from the release of captive birds. This has implications in Western Australia where this species may hybridize with the endangered southern race of the western corella.
Notes:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Cacatuoidea
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Tribe: Cacatuini
Genus: Cacatua
Subgenus: Licmetis
Species: C. tenuirostris
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