Short-billed Black-cockatoo Zanda latirostris
(aka Carnaby's Black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris)
Short-billed Black-cockatoo, Porongurup, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image Australia

The Short-billed Black-cockatoo is distributed in the south-west of Western Australia. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in heathland and woodland cones of Banksia and Dryandra.

Short-billed Black-cockatoo, Porongurup, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image It is classified as Endangered by Birdlife International because of its rapid decline in population due to habitat destruction.

The male has a dark bill and pinkish skin around the eye as in the bird on the right of photos 1 and 2. The female has a pale bill.

It was previously lumped with Long-billed Black-cockatoo Z. baudinii but that species is now split on the basis of its long upper mandible, the fact that it feeds on seeds of marri which require the longer bill and its forest rather than woodland habitat.

Short-billed Black-cockatoo, Cheynes Beach, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image
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