Glossy Black Cockatoo
Calyptorhychus lathami
Anne Bowman
Print of original artwork - Anne works in pastel, watercolour & pencil.
33cm x 49cm (image 26cm x 36cm)
The Glossy Black Cockatoo is the smallest of the red-tailed black cockatoos, reaching up to 50cm in length, and is endemic to Australia. There are 3 subspecies of the Glossy Black Cockatoo. In eastern Australia, it is found from south-eastern Queensland to eastern Victoria (C.l.erebus and C.l. lathami), with an outlying population on Kangaroo Island in South Australia (C.l. halmaturinus).
It is brownish-black, with a colourful tail panel- red in adult males, but is a gradient of yellow to red in females. The panel is barred in juveniles, and the extent of this barring decreases with age. Females usually have yellow feathers irregularly distributed on the head and neck, and some yellow flecks on the underwing and underparts.
It lives in eucalypt open forest and woodland with a midstory of species of Allocasuarina, as it feeds almost exclusively on the cones of this conifer. It nests in tree hollows, in Autumn or Winter, producing one egg.
The Glossy-Black Cockatoo Calyptorhyncus lathami was declared a vulnerable species on 23 August 2010 (Determination D12012-11) in accordance with section 38 of the Nature Conservation Act 1980.
The devastation to its population, as a result of the 2020 fires, particularly the Kangaroo Island subspecies, means that a revision of its status is urgently needed.
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