Beautiful Animals

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo:












These beautiful giants are amongst my favourite birds.....they are gentle giants, with a beautiful, wild, musical call...the epitome of the bush. Sadly, they are endangered, as more aggressive species take over their nesting sites.

Gorgeous birds.

Wow!

Ditto on the wow.

Here's how big they are:





(I think that one is still young......I have seen them looking much bigger against a human...)


The fedders:




You must have been a beautiful baby? Well...ummmmm.....er....







But look at me now!!!!

These guys are also cockatoos, but so much the opposite!!!


They are clowns... raucous, raunchy-looking, vulgar, their cry has the beauty of fingernails down a blackboard, they yell and scream their way through life, bickering and falling about and grabbing it with beak and claws......they have the wise, cynical, amused stare of an old roue. They often appear rawther tipsy... I wouldn't trust my daughter with one....

They are irresistible!!!


Unless they are waking you, screaming, at sparrow's fart, and destroying your garden!!!!

Holy cow, that must be one of our planet's ugliest babies!

While we're cockatooing, how about the Major Mitchell cockatoo:





And the rare palm cockatoo:

Over two hundred pages of great photographs. This is a fabulous thread.

It's pretty spectacular, isn't it?


I assume most cockatoo babies must look pretty similar.

Welcome, Alex. Glad you like it. Relax and enjoy.

You're right. A baby palm cockatoo:

Lol!! That one is older, and its beak and eyes are fitting its face better.....see, it has lost it's baby down, and is fledging.

Echidna puggles:


Egg in the pouch:



Puggle in the pouch:







Puggle in the hand:








Hey, my fur and spikes are coming in!!!





I'm getting big!!!

I'm getting big!!!!






Spikes!!!






Grown up

Oh, no, that wee porcpie is just too cute. Er, it is a porcupine, no? Maybe not..


Alex, in case you want to follow the photographers and more of their work, do you know to click on the image (well, easy for me with the mac, and not much more complicated with a pc). You might already know that. Anyway, a world of treasures...

I have a friend whose speech at a public gathering was interrupted by a white cockatoo in a palm tree. That loosened up the procedure, was a fine addition...

not a porcupine. Porcupines are not marsupials - they are actually rodents.

oh my gawd! A baby porcupine eating..... how cute!
you tube video

adults

What was it then?

dlowan's was an Echidna. A marsupial from down under. Very pointy nose and claws like a sloth, it seems.