Long-billed Corella
Cacatua tenuirostris· 凤头鹦鹉科(4 photos)
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Long-billed Corella
38-41 cm. Note long, whitish bill; red forehead band, lores and throat bar; pink tinge in underfeathers of throat and upper breast; grey-blue bare skin around eye; short, cap-like crest usually folded; slight yellow wash on underwing and undertail. Singles to flocks of thousands: flight swift, pigeon-like, with quick, shallow wingbeats. Looks large-headed, with angled, pointed wings. Digs for roots, corms, especially of introduced onion weed, Romulea sp.; head and breast often mud-stained.
- Similar Species
- Little Corella, Western Corella, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
- Voice
- quick, quavering, falsetto 'currup!'; harsh screeches.
- Habitat
- river red gums in woodlands and on watercourses; pastoral, cropping country; sprouting cereal crops, grain stubbles, hay windrows.
- Breeding
- July-Nov.
- Nest
- on decayed debris; in tree-hollow.
- Eggs
- 2-3; dull white, oval,
- Range & Status
- Heartland is Vic. western district but in recent decades has extended w. to near Mt Lofty Ras. (SA); e. through Geelong-Melbourne-Shepparton (Vic.); n. into Riverina and e. through Jerilderie-Albury (NSW). Adults sedentary; young dispersive. Feral flocks present along much of e. coast, n. and e. Tas., sw. WA, Alice Springs area (NT).
