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Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding in Wattle

A short recording of a flock of Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding in a stand of wattle at Adobe Mudbrick Holiday Flats, Mallacoota.

The Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoo are a large Cockatoo with a powerful beak. In this recording the flock were feeding on grubs in branches of the wattle by tearing the wood apart with their beak.One YTBC calls several times and you can hear the sounds of branches being torn apart.