With their distinctive yellow cheeks and panelled tail feathers, the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus is one of the largest Australian parrots.

Their mournful cries can be heard as they fly above forest canopies in search of their favoured seeds of hakea, banksia and casuarina.

This black beauty has just enjoyed a meal from the coastal banksia, Banksia integrifolia, one of the most widely distributed species along the east coast of Australia, with habitats ranging from coastal dunes to mountain ridges.