- Jan 14, 2020
Gologlazy cockatoo (Cacatua sanguinea)
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Appearance and description of a gologlazy cockatoo
The Gologlazy cockatoo is a korotkokhvosty parrot with a length of body about 38 cm and weighing 530 g. Both floors are painted equally. The main color of a gologlazy cockatoo white with a pink shade, more saturated in a breast, cheeks, a nape. Around a beak and about eyes there is more saturated rose-red spot. The Okologlaznichny ring naked, a blue-gray color, in its lower part is available consolidation. The beak is light, paws gray. Coloring of an iris identical at of a both sexes gologoglazy cockatoo — brown. There is small white round a cop.
Is known 5 subspecies of a gologoglazy cockatoo which differ from each other in coloring elements, the size and an area of dwelling.
Life expectancy of a gologoglazy cockatoo at due leaving — about 50 — 80 years.
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the Area of dwelling and life in the nature of a gologoglazy cockatoo
A look the gologoglazy cockatoo lives in Papua New Guinea, in northern and northwest parts of Australia. It is quite rare. Treats protected species, however it is sometimes destroyed by farmers because of damage of harvests.
the Look lives in the coastal forests adjoining at pastures or fields. Out of a season of reproduction can live in the most various landscapes, including the eucalyptus and akatsiyevy woods, on open, slightly overgrown meadows, rice fields, plains, mangrove thickets, roadsides of roads, near human housing.
In a diet of a gologoglazy cockatoo seeds of various herbs, nuts, fruit, berries, flowers, backs, tubers, kidneys, escapes, insects and their larvae.
For search of food gologoglazy cockatoos can get off in big packs, are most active in the morning and in the evening. Enough shumna are also loud. In search of livelihood can overcome impressive distances. They can be seen in the mixed packs with Pink cockatoos.
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Reproduction of a gologoglazy cockatoo
The season of reproduction of a gologoglazy cockatoo in the north of Australia falls on May-October, in the south – for August-December. Gologoglazy cockatoos nest in hollows and cavities of eucalyptuses at the height up to 12 meters.
In a laying of a gologoglazy cockatoo usually 2 eggs. Both parents serially hatch about 26 days a laying.
Baby birds of a gologoglazy cockatoo leave a nest at the age of 6 — 8 weeks.
