#Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalWomensDay + #WomensHistoryMonth: Marianne North is almost always labeled a botanical artist, but 121 of her Kew Gardens paintings also feature animals, like this one:

Marianne North (English, 1830-1890)  Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of a Queensland Tree, and Black Cockatoo c. 1880-1 painting, oil on board H 50.9 x W 35.4 cm Kew Gardens Marianne North Gallery [MN790]

PS - This bird is misidentified on the Kew Gardens website as a Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), but it's actually a Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Zanda funerea) - the yellow cheek patch distinguishes it as the latter:

You can view all of Marianne North's paintings with animals in them here:

Bonus: Here's an actual Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (male) by Eileen Mayo, from her poster series made for the Australian National Travel Association in the 1950s. Fun wordplay here too - the bird's scientific name is Calyptorhynchus banksii and she placed it on a Banksia plant. :)

Eileen Mayo (1906-1994) AUSTRALIA / COCKATOO & BANKSIA c. 1955-7 poster, 39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. Australian National Travel Association

[starbooksye]

A yellow-tailed black cockatoo appeared!

I can't really draw for paint birds that well

But here's the reference I used for them

[dobbsie81]

Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo

[distilledlight]

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

21 April 2023, Lower Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

The first image (pink around eye) is the male. The other images (In the Banksia bush and in flight) are the femaie.

(c) Steve Ford 2023

[fire-in-the-goat]

@espcetera "Goatatoo? Cockagoat? Sounds like a lot of fun! :3"

It *is* a lot of fun! Here's what i have so far

So a while ago, because i have tendancies to occasionally act like a parrot, i decided to see what it could look like if i hybridised a yellow-tailed black cockatoo in with my goat sona.

I like the outcome, but put it aside.

By now, I've decided to accept that part cockatoo certainly fits my life theme, so I'm doing one more little switch to add cockatoo to Bingo~

as a result, this is one lf the sketches

I now get to be whole new flavours of weird~

[malvacae]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Yellow-tailed black-cockatoos (Zanda funerea), Bruny Island, Tasmania,

by Luke Tscharke.

[magpielark]

First fakemon : -D

Unsure about the name, it might sound too much like simipour.

[groupwest]

^_^

[catostrofiqu]

I'd like to also offer some birds

The Willie Wagtail (the eyebrows)

Red tailed black cockatoo

Pied Currawong

Regent Bower Bird

King Parrot

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

[nanaimari]

【オーストラリアの田舎で暮らせば ㉓ ユーカリの森を歩くと見えるもの】

オーストラリアに800種類もあるユーカリの木は、当地の生態系や文化の一部。その葉や花実、木を住処とする生き物たち、そしてオーストラリアの自然を題材にしたメイ･ギブスの絵本の話も。 https://nichigopress.jp/topics-item/129565/

[herpsandbirds]

Is there a gothier parrot than the Dracula Parrot?

Dude there really is not, but have a look at...

Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), family Cacatuidae, order Psittaciformes, North Queensland, Australia

Photograph by Roger MacKertich Photography

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea), male, family Cacatuidae, NSW, Australia

photograph by David Cook Wildlife Photography

Black Lory (Chalcopsitta atra), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, endemic to West Papua, New Guinea

photograph by Crisco 1492 

[gumnut-logic]

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo 😁

[orionremastered]

do you think you would ever do a wingfic? cause i LOVE your writing style and your shifter fics have lead me to believe that you would be super good at it :]

like brucie would obviously have batwings cause ✨drama✨ and maybe for the rest of the fam they have wings that match their hair colors and personalities? if that makes sense 🫠 and maybe the reader has just super duper soft wings :}

if you ever decide to do something wingfic esq. just know that i would be the first to read :3

with love - @gothammybeloved

Rising from the dead with this one (I have twenty asks in my inbox)

Happy Holidays you mfs

Masterlist

Bruce

Def a bat. Causes him problems with the press having similar wings to Batman sometimes but there's a lot of other people with bat wings so it's generally a baseless accusation. This likely goes for the entire batfam because lots of people have similar bird wings. Ye

I'd think that he and Lucius Fox probably designed some kind of protection for bat wings (and then later of feather wings once he adopted Dick etc) because criminals would purposely or accidentally rip the membrane/break the bones of batfam wings.

Dick

Dick is a Blue Jay because;

A) blue does it need explanation

B) Blue Jays have elliptical wings which are shaped in a way that "allow birds to maneuver tightly in confined spaces and minimize drag for rapid ascent and descent". And it makes sense for Dick who is flexible to concerning degrees. So. Neat

Jason

We have two options here:

A) secretary bird bc they beat the shit out of snakes. I promise. Snakes = dirty criminals yk??? Also that bird looks like it reads Jane Austen

B) Andean Condor which is the largest bird of prey

because Jason is a brick shit house

Tim

Crow/Raven. Doesn't matter cause they're both smart and have been known to use things like tools and other stuff etc.

Also black would fit with the Red Robin suit I'd think so yeah 👍

Damian

Like father like son, so bat wings too. In the League I'd think they would treat the wings of the Al Ghul (I'd wanna say all have bat wings too? Cant see Ra's with bird wings) family as...

Idk but see the vision ok: painting the membrane with special paint that doesn't weigh them down, in gold intricate patterns. They'd have people do it for them but when moving to Gotham, Damian would probably keep doing it himself.

Steph

Red (or yellow) tailed black cockatoo. Cockatoos have a fun personality I think and the wings of the red tailed black cockatoo are black, fitting in with her suit, but also have a fun sprinkle of yellow colouring.

Idk what birds have purple wings I sorry

Cass

An owl with black wings (black banded owl, black barn owl etc.) because:

A) black . Black bat? Like?

B) owls are silent in flight which makes sense for Cass because she's very stealthy and quiet.

Duke

Keeping a trend of Australian birds I think he'd be a rainbow lorikeet. Lovable colourful birds that no one can find a reason to hate except for when there's fifty squawking next to your bedroom cough cough

Have mostly yellow wings. Bonus their chest feathers reflect in ultraviolet light to signal (! See what I did there) to other birds. Let's pretend their wings do that too

Alfred

Some kind of albatross. This man went from British special forces to a butler for billionaires in America. He has travelled. He has seen shit. He makes it look easy

Bonus most albatross species live up and over of 50 years which isn't the longest but still pretty cool.

[shivroy]

OFMD animals!! the list is under the cut :D

the swede: swedish moose wee john: yellow-crested cockatoo buttons: seagull roach: ring-tailed lemur black pete: possum jim: capybara oluwande: otter lucius: rabbit edward: meow meow stede: dove frenchie: mouse izzy: con o'neill's dog

[ellerykr]

Yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea), Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia