palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus flying to the nearby nest site. In Australia they are only found on the tip of Cape York so they are a bit rare.
Date 21 July 2014, 07:46
Source palm cockatoo 2
Author Jim Bendon from Karratha, Australia https://www.flickr.com/people/77524419@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Probosciger_aterrimus,_Cape_York_2.jpg
The palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, Aru Islands and Cape York Peninsula. It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Cacatuoidea
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Tribe: Microglossini
Genus: Probosciger
Species: Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788)
