Celebrations as two rare Australian cockatoo chicks hatch

This is one of the two Eyre Peninsula yellow-tailed black cockatoo chicks which has been successfully reared in South Australia this year. | Photographer: (Katrina Pobke - DEH) 

The first born in the wild since Black Tuesday bushfires

May 2010: One has been raised on a farming property on the Lower Eyre Peninsula and is the first chick to be reared in the wild since the Black Tuesday bushfires. The second has been raised in captivity at Gorge Wildlife Park in Adelaide.
Katrina Pobke, DEH Threatened Species Officer, said this was a major milestone for the species which had suffered critically low population numbers for several years.

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Authorities crack egg smuggling racket

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos pictured at Edithvale wetlands. Image by Wayne Butterworth

AN INTERNATIONAL crime syndicate based in northern Victoria is making millions of dollars smuggling endangered and exotic bird eggs in and out of the country.

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Birds of a feather flock to a luminous leader

Mutation Yellow-tailed black cockatoo. Image by David CookIt's the colour of hope, humility and the Beatles' mythic submarine. But yellow is usually confined to just a flash of cheek and tail plumage for the average yellow-tailed black cockatoo.

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Eyre Peninsula cockatoos near extinction

Eyre Peninsula cockatoo threathend by sever droughtThe South Australian Environment Department is on a mission to save Eyre Peninsula yellow-tailed black cockatoos, which are near extinction because of drought conditions.

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