Black
Palm Cockatoos are large, powerful birds that require the expertise of experienced parrot owners.
Black
Palm Cockatoos are large birds, and they need plenty of exercise to maintain their physical health.
While hand fed Black
Palm Cockatoos make excellent, tame pets, they still require firm training and are not for those who are new to keeping large parrots.
Black
Palm Cockatoos are one of the very few bird species who use tools.
Male
palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) in northern Australia refashion sticks and seedpods into tools that the animals use to bang against trees as part of an elaborate visual and auditory display designed to seduce females.
A healthy diet for a pet Black
Palm Cockatoo should consist of high - quality pellets, a moderate amount of seed mix and daily helpings of fresh bird - safe fruits and vegetables.
It's not an ideal pet for everyone, but the Black
Palm Cockatoo has its rewarding characteristics.
Before adopting a Black
Palm Cockatoo, contact local breeders to see if you can spend some time with them and their birds.
Unlike most other parrots, the Black
Palm Cockatoo is not considered an affectionate bird.
Do not adopt a Black
Palm Cockatoo if you are intimidated by large birds.
Tapping up to a hundred times on a hollow tree trunk — which, by the way, almost always makes a good nesting place — the male
palm cockatoo tries to lure a female to come and check him, and maybe their future nesting home, out.
The palm cockatoo is the largest in the cockatoo family with one of the oddest calls.
Not exact matches
Marvel at the lush foliage of giant ferns,
palms, and towering trees; glimpse electric - blue Ulysses butterflies; and listen to the calls of
cockatoos as a local guide introduces us to this remarkable rain forest ecosystem.
A dawn walk in the ever present company of brightly coloured lorikeets, kookaburras, flocks of sulphur crested
cockatoos, wallabies and rare green tree frogs, belies the fact that
Palm Cove is just 20 minutes north of the Cairns International Airport.