More birds from Lorne this week.
This bird is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - these large, intelligent birds are common around the main street of Lorne where they are popular with tourist, and unpopular with many shop owners. The shop owners dont love these birds as much as some because they (the birds!) have a bit of a tendency to eat parts of buildings! Advertisements, phone and electricity cables, window frames and even gutters are all part of the 'natural ' diet of the urban Sulphur-Cresty! I suspect they just pull them apart rather than eat these things, but the impact is the same.
This rather splendid bird was taking in the view, just back from the beach.
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This bird is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - these large, intelligent birds are common around the main street of Lorne where they are popular with tourist, and unpopular with many shop owners. The shop owners dont love these birds as much as some because they (the birds!) have a bit of a tendency to eat parts of buildings! Advertisements, phone and electricity cables, window frames and even gutters are all part of the 'natural ' diet of the urban Sulphur-Cresty! I suspect they just pull them apart rather than eat these things, but the impact is the same.
This rather splendid bird was taking in the view, just back from the beach.
As ever, you can join in with WBW by clicking on the link below - and also as ever, please feel free to share the love for WBW with other bloggers! Cheers. SM
17 comments:
They really are beautiful birds it is a shame they are unpopular with some!! Have a great week, cheers Diane
A very regal looking bird!
Wow, great photos Stewart.
A beauty but destructive! Looks can be deceiving!
Very handsome bird with bad habits. Our Black Vultures do the same to cars in the parking lots at Everglades National Park. The pick at windshield wipers and tear up the rubber weatherstripping around the doors.
As a visitor I enjoy these birds very much, but I never have to suffer the results of their depredations, so I can understand that some may not be unreservedly enamoured of them.
Very beautiful cockatoo, I love them but maybe if they were in my garden, no....
My cousin, who live in Iluka, has not problem with very big colony of little rosela.
Very beautiful close up, congretulation !
What a pretty bird you are sharing with us today!
Thanks. Have a great May with a lot of captures!
A beautiful looking bird but very noisy and destructive. Thanks for hosting and have a good week
Strange feather arrangement makes the bird look like an ornament attached to the tree; especially because it's so very white. Wondering in what way they express their intelligence.
So purdy
A handsome dude for sure...they are so intelligent...:)JP
What a beautiful bird..He looks wonderful in the Evergreens..Great shots..I don't think I have any birds to share..Enjoy your week..
Stewart, fantastic capture of the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo. Thanks for sharing.
Awww - adorable!
They look like a great bird to have around Stewart. I'd swap them for our Magpies :)
Love the cockatoos. As usual hard to believe they are not even rare birds for you. Not so unusually it isn’t even hard for me to believe I messed up and didn’t get my post linked when I meant to. Better late than never I guess.
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