They will also help you out by protecting the trees with their occasional appetite for wood boring insect larvae. If you have any of their favourite trees in your backyard, let them flourish. Glossy Black parents make sure that food trees are close to their nest, so their baby doesn’t have to wait too long for food. They also like to build their nests in the hollows of dead or living eucalyptus trees.
The Glossy Blacks’ favourite food is casuarina seeds. Although, if you look skyward and glimpse a streak of red on a jet black tail, you’ve probably just found one. They can be quiet while feeding and hard to spot. The Glossy Black feeds on the seeds of casuarina, eucalypts, angophoras, acacias and hakea trees. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is the smallest black-cockatoo in Australia. State: Endangered (SA) Glossy Black-Cockatoo This can help to tell them apart from their Red-tailed cousins, who talk in a sharper ‘ kree‘ sound. Their call is soft and gentle, and they repeat the sound ‘ tarr-ed‘ to communicate with each other. These close-knit cockatoos live in very small groups, with usually two to three members.As a result the Glossy Black-Cockatoo is now a protected species in NSW. A pair of Glossy Blacks eats about 60-89 thousand casuarina cones a year, however bushfires and habitat clearing can make this a difficult target. They are drawn to woodland and open forests with casuarina trees. Glossy Blacks are found mostly in three Australian regions: south-eastern Queensland, eastern Victoria, and on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. There is also a small cluster found on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is widespread across eastern Australia. They are often confused with their close relative, the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo who are also glossy and black with red tails.
Both have small crests with a broad and bulbous bill for cracking open tasty cones. Females have yellow patches on their heads and necks, with orange-red barred tail panels. Males have brownish heads and chests, with red tail feathers. Glossy Black-Cockatoos are about 46-50 cm long. They are entirely black, but if you look skyward and glimpse a streak of red on a jet black tail, you’ve probably just found one.
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