long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) Long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris): a southern Australian cockatoo that uses its long bill to dig up roots, bulbs and corms to eat.
Date 7 May 2009
Author Chudditch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chudditch
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The long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris), or slender-billed corella is a cockatoo native to Australia, which is similar in appearance to the little corella and sulphur-crested cockatoo. This species is mostly white, with a reddish-pink face and forehead, and has a long pale beak, which is used to dig for roots and seeds. It has reddish-pink feathers on the breast and belly.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Cacatuoidea
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Tribe: Cacatuini
Genus: Cacatua
Subgenus: Licmetis
Species: Cacatua tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820