Forest Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus is from the Greek words calyptos, meaning hidden, and rhynchos, meaning beak. Banksii is in honour of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English botanist and zoologist. Naso is from the Latin word nasus, meaning nose, referring to the larger beak of this subspecies.

Karak (car’ark).

While red-tailed black cockatoos can be found in all mainland states of Australia, the Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is restricted to the south-west of Western Australia.

Up to 60 centimetres long.

There are five subspecies. The subspecies usually found in Perth is naso.

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Various contributors.

What Bird is That? Neville W Cayley. 1978

Aboriginal names of bird species in south-west Western Australia, with suggestions for their adoption into common usage. Ian Abbott. 2009. Conservation Science Western Australia Journal. Volume 7 No 2 https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/Journals/080559/080559-07.015.pdf

Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ebb36e48-4e64-42c5-a74c-309cc1e12961