Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Calls & Sounds

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

Female Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) 

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo calls consist mainly of creaky, grating squawks and plaintive ‘kee’ squeals. These calls are a common sound of open woodlands and savannas of tropical northern Australia.

The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) is a large species of cockatoo found across most of tropical northern Australia, parts of central Australia and inland Queensland and NSW, as well as in south-west Western Australia.