Western Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Male feeding juvenile
Murray-Darling Region, SA
Western Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Female
 
                      
Western Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea ssp whiteae)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Parrots (Psittaciformes)
Family: Cockatoo (Cacatuidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Western Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea ssp whiteae)
This Photo:     Male (red eye ring)
Synonym: Calyptorhynchus funereus

Thank you Andrew Allen for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray-Darling, SA, Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere

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This species is protected and classed as VU (Vulnerable) under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act