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Cockatoos are the masters of water fountains in daily Sydney ritual
The “drinking-fountain innovation” is the second time researchers have found the birds adapting their behavior to suit their ...
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Rare Black Cockatoo Showing Off Gorgeous Red Tail Feathers Is So Proud To Be Handsome
He’s a Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo: he’s fully black, though he used to have some yellow spots on his feathers, and his tail feathers are partially read. He might look like the night sky on the Fourth ...
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These birds could be extinct in 20 years. Meet the people fighting to change that
Another species, the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, is found in South Australia ... hakea, grevillea, banksia and jarrah trees, which black cockatoos feed on and use for nesting, can help to ...
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‘Power Rangers’ writer admits casting black, Asian actors as Black Ranger, Yellow Rangers was ‘such a mistake’ — but star disagrees
It’s time for the truth to power up. “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” head writer Tony Oliver admitted it was a mistake to cast a Black actor in the role of the Black Power Ranger and an Asian ...
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‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’
The series kicked off in August 1993 on Fox Kids with Walter Emanuel Jones as Zack Taylor (the first Black Ranger) and Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (the first Yellow Ranger). Oliver says in the ...
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Wild cockatoos learn to open bins by copying others—first evidence of social learning
Watch cockatoos open garbage bins These handsome, two-foot-tall white parrots with vibrant yellow head crests ... Australia’s southeastern red-tailed black cockatoo, which numbers fewer than ...
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Gina Rinehart and Kerry Stokes get new fly-in friends as endangered cockatoo refuge approved
The banksia is both a major food source and roosting ... according to the Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre, farmers shoot them. There should be no such threats in Perth’s golden ...
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‘Refugees in their own country’: Starving cockies flood Perth Zoo vets amid food crisis
Prominent Perth botanist Professor Kingsley Dixon said the Carnaby’s black cockatoo had evolved for four million years eating the banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain. He said what Perth ...
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Travis turns heads when he wears this feather. But there’s a grim prediction behind it
When Kerrupmara, Gunditjmara and Boandik man Travis Lovett wears the tail feathers of his traditional totem – the south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo – people stop him in the street to ask ...
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Red-tailed black cockatoo
The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is one of five subspecies of Red Tail Black Cockatoos across Australia and the most endangered, with less than 1500 remaining in the wild.Credit ...