Little Corella

The Little Corella

The Little Corella, also known as the short-billed corella, bare-eyed cockatoo, blood-stained cockatoo, and little cockatoo is a white cockatoo native to Australia and southern New Guinea.

There are four subspecies of the Cacatua genus, but the Little Corella is the smaller of them, and unlike most it has upper and lower mandibles of similar length. It is easily distinguished from the long-billed corella by the lack of an orange throat bar.

Little corellas usually feed on the ground, however occasionally feed in trees and shrubs. They eat a variety of both wild and cultivated seeds, and in urban areas grass seed. When little corellas play, they become very noisy. They have conversations with each other, fly around and also show off. They’re very good at copying human language.

Little corellas congregate in flocks of up to several thousand! The flocks may contain other cockatoo and cockatiel species. When they all call together the deafening sound can be heard for kilometres.

Little corellas show off by hanging themselves upside-down with their feet, beaks or both.