A Perth newspaper said: “Rangers discovered more than 100 dead white-tailed black cockatoos near a Hopetoun golf course yesterday morning. Saving Black Cockatoos – local boy leads the way. How many are there? The reason cockatoos cannot eat canned vegetables is because they need to eat their food without any additives, such as salt or pepper. The favoured food is seeds of native trees and pinecones, but birds also feed on the seeds of ground plants. Cockatube Artificial Hollows Help Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo Recovery . Posted on 16/12/2016 24/11/2017. Posted on 17/12/2016 21/11/2017. Nests are built in the hollows of trees in the wandoo woodlands and salmon gum area known as the Wheatbelt. While your cockatoo can eat fruit once every day, they will not need to eat vegetables quite as often. Breeding: Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos have a long breeding season, which varies throughout their range. What do they eat? There is a wonderful documentary about the Carnaby’s called ‘On A Wing and a Prayer’ shown on the ABC which described the birds like this – “Playful, mischievous and highly intelligent, Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos are adored by thousands, hunted by many and saved by few. In a bizarre event in 2010, over one hundred Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos fell out of the sky dead near the southern coastal mining town of Hopetoun. Participating in the 2014 Great Cocky Count made him aware of their plight. Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos feed on the seeds of a variety of native and introduced plant species and on insect larvae. Report injured black cockatoos to Kaarakin; Come and visit our black cockatoo conservation centre to learn more and get up close to black cockatoos; Support our revegetation programs Click here to see our revegetation page. Local 14 year old schoolboy, Sebastian Rapararo, is passionate about supporting endangered Black Cockatoos. Canned foods often have additives in them, such as sugar. They have also adapted to feeding on exotic species such as pines and cape lilac and some weeds such as wild radish and wild geranium. They usually choose Eucalyptus trees and they return to the same tree the next year. You can instead try feeding them some mixed vegetables every two or three days. The Carnaby’s black cockatoos begin breeding when they are four years old. Plants include kwongan heath plants such bansksias, dryandra, hakea, grevillea and also marri seeds. They usually build nests and mate between July and February. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos feed in small to large, noisy flocks. Click here to see our page dedicated to what plants black cockatoos eat. Some insects are also eaten. Other species also dropped from the sky dead too.