Cockatoos (Cacatuidae)
Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus) - HBW 4, p. 272
French: Cacatoès funèbre
German: Gelbschwanz-Rußkakadu
Spanish: Cacatúa Fúnebre Coliamarilla
Other common names: Funereal/Yellow-eared/Common Black-cockatoo, Black/Yellow-tailed Cockatoo
Taxonomy: Psittacus funereus Shaw, 1794, New South Wales.
Forms superspecies with C. latirostris and C. baudinii; has been considered conspecific with former, and occasionally with latter. Southern races considered by some to form a megasubspecies. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- funereus (Shaw, 1794) - EC Queensland (Emerald) S to E Victoria.
- whiteae (Mathews, 1912) - S Victoria to Eyre Peninsula (SC South Australia), including Kangaroo I.
- xanthonotus Gould, 1838 - Tasmania and islands of Bass Strait.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female feeding on cones of the introduced Monterey pine Locality Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp funereus)
Geoffrey Dabb 31 July 2003 4 years ago 38 sec 4.6 -
A male feeding on cones of the introduced Monterey pine Locality Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp funereus)
Geoffrey Dabb 31 July 2003 4 years ago 49 sec 4.6 -
Female preening. Locality Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 4 January 2012 5 weeks ago 31 sec 4.5 -
A male calling and climbing down a banksia branch. Locality Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia (ssp funereus)
Nick Talbot 24 October 2011 13 weeks ago 27 sec 4.5 -
A male biting off a branch to reach the cones of the introduced Monterey pine Locality Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp funereus)
Geoffrey Dabb 31 July 2003 4 years ago 34 sec 4.4 -
Male - calls three times (two different calls) in the first scene. Locality Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 6 January 2012 5 weeks ago 1 min 23 sec 4.3
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Yellow-tailed black-cockatoo.
Locality Gibraltar Falls, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 16 November 2010 1 year ago 4.4 -
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo feeding
Locality Caloundra Headland, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 1 year ago 4 -
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo feeding
Locality Caloundra Headland, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 1 year ago 3.8 -
resting on the branch
Locality Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Bogdan Krajewski 13 March 2010 1 year ago 3.7 -
Close-up of a male feeding in a Banksia tree.
Locality Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia (ssp funereus)
Nick Talbot 23 October 2011 11 weeks ago 3.4 -
Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoos in flight
Locality Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia
Keff McCulloch 4 weeks ago 3.3
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Several kinds of calls of a bird.
Locality Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Josep del Hoyo 16 October 2009 48 weeks ago 4 -
A male bird calling while feeding in a tree. Locality Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
(ssp funereus)
Nick Talbot 24 October 2011 13 weeks ago 3
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