Birds Pink Cockatoo

[Ralph]

And yes this is their real name now and not the old name they were known by. A quick google search will show you this to be so.
But I got this pair and the young one in the hollow by chance. I walked away from my car and never locked it. But thought better of it and went back to lock the car and there the pair were just in the tree behind the car and yes up higher.

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[Tim Mayo]

Looks like a pretty bird. Great shots Ralph!

 

[Richard A]

These are my favourite cockatoos. Great shots of beautiful birds again Ralph. Are these taken around your area? We don't get them around here. In South Australia you pretty much have to go to the dryer parts, maybe north of the Flinders Ranges, to find them easily. That's my experience anyway.

 

[Ralph]

Looks like a pretty bird. Great shots Ralph!

Tim these are as you have said a really nice looking larger bird, and thanks for looking

These are my favourite cockatoos. Great shots of beautiful birds again Ralph. Are these taken around your area? We don't get them around here. In South Australia you pretty much have to go to the dryer parts, maybe north of the Flinders Ranges, to find them easily. That's my experience anyway.

Richard these are around our area and at one time in numbers but they have thinned out a lot now sadly.
Many times you hear them before seeing them. So we just keep a special eye out for them as no one want to miss the chance
at getting a shot of them. But this time with the young one made it even better.
These are at times more common just over the river in a place called Dareton in NSW, but I got these just out of town from home.

 

[Richard A]

You are very lucky there in Mildura. You have a great variety of birds in the area. I need to pull my finger out and get further out around here to see what I can find.

 

[AlphaWorld]

And yes this is their real name now and not the old name they were known by. A quick google search will show you this to be so.

I wasn't aware of the change in name. I think I have referred to them elsewhere on here as "Major Mitchell cockatoos" - I'm pretty sure they were called that when I first encountered them. Beautiful birds under any name!

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Richard A]

They have been referred to as both names for quite a long time I believe but it seems pink cockatoo is the preferred name now. I’m not even sure who Major Mitchell was or even if he ever existed.

 

[AlphaWorld]

They have been referred to as both names for quite a long time I believe but it seems pink cockatoo is the preferred name now. I’m not even sure who Major Mitchell was or even if he ever existed.

You prompted me to look him up. He did exist. He was an explorer and Surveyor-General of the Colony of New South Wales from 1827-1855.

Given the trend to replace British names with indigenous ones, I wonder what the indigenous name (or names) of this bird is?

 

[Richard A]

I checked Wikipedia: Pink Cockatoo

There is quite a bit of info on there including aboriginal names in a variety of dialects. It was also called Leadbeater's Cockatoo at one stage. That's what John Gould knew it as. All interesting stuff...