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.

Listen to Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Sounds

The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo sounds in this video spectrogram were recorded in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. In the background are the calls of Pacific Koel, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet & Little Lorikeet.

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