The Short-billed or Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo (Zanda or Calyptorhynchus latirostris) is a very large dull black cockatoo (around 50-60 centimetres long) with white ear patches and tail feather panels. Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo is restricted to south-western Australia and is classified as endangered. Males have a black bill and a pinkish eye-ring; females have a bone-coloured bill and a grey eye-ring with broader pale margins to their breast feathers. These cockatoos have enormously strong bills that are adapted to cracking open the hard, woody fruits of plants native to south-western Australia to extract the seeds. They move on to the coastal plain near Perth in the southern autumn, and many congregate in large noisy flocks in Yanchep National Park. Their haunting call is one of my all-time favourites. This clip shows adult Carnaby’s Cockatoos perching in a Western Australian Peppermint Tree (Agonis flexuosa), and then zooms in on a male eating Peppermint fruit. The video ends with a female grooming her mate, but after she pulled some feathers from his head a squabble broke out, and he flew off.