WESTERN CORELLA

Photographed at Beverley, Western Australia, April 2015

  561            WESTERN CORELLA             Cacatua pastinator

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Also known as Western Long-billed Corella. c. 47 cm. Found in wheat; sheep farming country, with remnant native forest; woodland, scrub, sand plain heath. Endemic to sw. WA, Albany-Boyup Brook region of far s. WA, ne. of Perth, between Northam and Dongara; Moora and Burkina in w. and e.

Note: The Western Corella occurs in the SW of WA. It consists of two geographically separated subspecies: Butler's Corella (Cacatua pastinator butleri) found in the northern wheat fields of SW WA; and Muir's Corella (Cacatua pastinator pastinator) in a small pocket around Lake Muir, in the far south. The Lake Muir population was down to 100 hundred birds but has recovered considerably. The northern birds are smaller than the southern birds.

Photographed near York, Western Australia April 2015

Butler's Corella, photographed at Beverley November 2016

 

Muir's Corella, photographed at Lake Muir, November 2016