Slaty grey birds with white bills the males with red head and face
Medium sized wood dwelling parrots of the cockatoo race
High on an old tree in a cavity the female two or three white eggs lay
Birds mostly that live in pairs that one does not see every day
They mostly eat seeds of native trees and insects and hawthorn berries in the Fall
Birds distinctive in their appearance and their squeaky door like call
Of the cockatoo family perhaps the rarest and least known
Yet they are interesting birds with ways of their own
In Halls Gap a few years ago a pair of them i did see
Quietly eating seeds on a eucalypt tree
Of humans they do not seem fearful or shy
They keep on eating seeds though you watch from the ground to them nearby
Not the fastest of parrots when travelling by sky
By their appearance and calls not hard to identify.
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