Major Mitchells or Pink Cockatoos in your travels?

You can call the bird what you wish but spare a thought to our indigeneous population whom the person "Major Mitchell" Slautered many of our native population without sparing a thought. The mob in western NSW only know the parrot as the Pink Cockatoo.
That is where I have seen thousands of them and are not rare at all there. Seen them in flocks.
Peter

Didn't see where he asked ofr a history lesson but get the facts here.

http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/mitchell/mitchell.htm

Honky

I'm confused!

The birds in the picture above appear to be what I have always thought were "Galahs"

Are they also "Major Mitchells"

If not - What are they?

Peter

Peter, the birds in this pic are Major Mitchell's. Galahs have grey wingsand have no "comb". Major Mitchell's have white wings and a large "comb".

Thanks Joker.

Peter

Another photo with comb raised

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We have quite a few Black Cockatoos (both yellow and red ones) here at home in the Adelaide Hills. They are a fabulous looking bird and their screech is something else (until they drop a pine cone on your car). And we get 1000's of Sulphur Crested's in the trees up the river - noisy b's. every morning and evening just after nesting season and the young take to the wing.

My grandpa had a Major Mitchell as a pet. He got it at least 5 years before my mum was born, mum died at age 56, 14 years ago. Dancy Cocky (what we kids called him) died 5 years ago. That made him around 70 years old.

Louie