Burung paruh bengkok (Parrots)
Gang-gang Cockatoo
Callocephalon fimbriatum
- legendaris
- 50 km/h
- Rentan
Males have a red mohawk on a grey body. Creaks like a cork leaving a wine bottle. Listed as Endangered in Australia.
- Populasi
- ~17,600–35,200 mature individuals (midpoint ~25,300); population trend decreasing (est. 30–49% decline over three generations)
- Habitat
- Cool, wet montane and foothill eucalypt forests and woodlands with a dense shrubby understory for breeding; moves to drier, more open forests, woodlands, farmland, and urban/suburban gardens at lower elevations in winter
- Fakta menarik
- The Gang-gang Cockatoo's distinctive call has been likened to the creak of a rusty gate hinge or a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, and the species is the official faunal emblem of Australia's Australian Capital Territory.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to southeastern Australia, along the Great Dividing Range from the Hunter Region of central-north New South Wales in a broad arc through the ACT and Victoria to the Otway Ranges; formerly present on King Island (Tasmania, extinct there since the 1960s) and introduced to Kangaroo Island
- Makanan
- Primarily eucalypt seeds, buds, and flowers, plus wattle (Acacia) seeds, berries, nuts, insect larvae, and fruits of introduced plants such as hawthorn and cotoneaster; forages mainly in the tree canopy
- Ukuran
- 0,35 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,69 m
- Masa hidup
- 20 tahun
