As I sorted out my camera gear out for my weekly walk around Green’s Bush I heard a crunching in the trees above my car. Several Yellow-tailed black cockatoos were tearing into the branches of a Blackwood tree. Cockatoos will often attack tree branches (and houses) to keep their every growing bills trim and to find insect larvae boring into the wood.
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Greens Bush, Mornington Peninsula National Park, Vic
Male YTBC with pink eye ring