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| Photographed at Beverley, Western Australia, April 2015 |
561 WESTERN CORELLA
Cacatua pastinator
AUSTRALIA (402)
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.
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| Photographed near York, Western Australia April 2015 |
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| Butler's Corella, photographed at Beverley November 2016 |
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| Muir's Corella, photographed at Lake Muir, November 2016 |
