It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. The same can be said of sulphur-crested cockatoos.
These beautiful, raucous yet destructive parrots are a blight on the South Coast of NSW. But in late 2009 they delivered a special Christmas present to me.
I was driving along our street to the shops one Saturday morning in December. Alongside the street is a stand of ancient gum trees and what I didn’t know was that high up in the canopy and not seen from the street was a blaze of red blossom. Cockatoos, being the nuisance they are, were cutting off the flowers and strewing them onto the road below.
Thank you cockatoos for botanical flower #121, Eucalyptus sideroxylon (Red Ironbark).
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