A PALM COCKATOO from Cape York Peninsula. This, the largest of the Australian parrot family, feeds mainly on nuts that it crushes easily with its large powerful beak. The picture is one of the striking photographs in “Australian Wildlife,” Eric Worrell’s panorama of the best-known birds mammals, reptiles, and plants of Australia and New Guinea. The publishers are Angus and Robertson.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 4
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61A PALM COCKATOO from Cape York Peninsula. This, the largest of the Australian parrot family, feeds mainly on nuts that it crushes easily with its large powerful beak. The picture is one of the striking photographs in “Australian Wildlife,” Eric Worrell’s panorama of the best-known birds mammals, reptiles, and plants of Australia and New Guinea. The publishers are Angus and Robertson. Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 4
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