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The Yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Zanda funerea) is a bird found in Australia. Forests and woodland in southeastern Australia. It eats insects and other small invertebrates and seeds and nuts. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo lives

Forests and woodland in southeastern Australia.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐛 Insects & bugs50%
• 🌰 Seeds & nuts50%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

Hear the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Recorded by Romuald Mikusek (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC1166626. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Where does the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo live?

The Yellow-tailed black cockatoo lives in Australia. Forests and woodland in southeastern Australia.

What does the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo eat?

insects and other small invertebrates (about 50%), seeds and nuts (about 50%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Yellow-tailed black cockatoo endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from Australia & Oceania

• Crow honeyeater
• Black-eared miner
• Orange-bellied parrot
• Flores hawk-eagle
• Forty-spotted pardalote
• Norfolk Island robin

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.