On Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos

 From the sound of their calls known to some as weerloos

The big dark brown parrots known as yellow tailed black cockatoos

With yellow on their faces and yellow tips on their tail

Once seen and once heard to recognize them you never again will fail

To bird fanciers with big avaiaries they are not a source of financial joy

Since with their powerful bills expensive avaiaries they have been known to destroy

They can be quite expensive to keep financially

The main reason in privately owned avairies them one seldom does see

In a huge cavity on an old tree trunk the female bird mostly one large white egg does lay

For quite a long spell of time the young bird with the parents does stay

They are parrots that one does regularly see

Stripping pine cones for their dark seeds high on a pine tree

Weerloo weerloo to each other they cry

In small family groups whilst travelling by sky

Quite beautiful birds a bird watcher's delight

In the countryside in their range quite a familiar sight

In privately owned bird avairies you will seldom see yellow tailed black cockatoos

Since to keep them financially bird breeders would have too much to lose

The largest members of the cockatoo family

Birds you will recognize again when them you hear and see