Pink Cockatoo (Eolophus roseicapilla, Eolophus roseicapillus) is a very widespread and frequent in Australia. It is a medium-firm built cockatoo species conspicuous pinkish and gray-colored feathers. Kukma is short and directed backwards, and long wings reaching nearly to tip slightly rounded tail. It is the only species in the genus Eolophus.
The area in which they live and the population density of this species are on the rise. This is attributed to growing influence of humans on the environment by changing the dry habitat in agricultural areas, suitable for sheep, wheat and corn. This expansion and strengthening of population density has negative impact on other types of cockatoos. The North Australian pink cockatoo is a protected species, while in other parts of Australia regularly allows his shooting, because it is considered a pest.
The species is monogamous, and a few years using the same cavity for a nest. Litter size depends on supply of food, and going up to the disadvantaged few years do not even tries to have offspring.
The rate of mortality of pink cockatoo is very high. The reasons are various: from the hands of farmers dying about 3 / 4 dead near where it was possible to determine the cause of death, 7% were killed by domestic cats (which is indirectly as a result of human activity because they are not part of native Australian fauna, but they were brought here, man), 7% kill prey and 5% hit in road traffic (again the result of people). Tracking 100 couples in the countryside has shown that a pair must have successfully eight times a litter, and two offspring experienced age of three years.
Birds are very social, and form very large flocks. Loudly, but have developed their own voice warning of danger. How often fly in flocks with other species have learned to recognize their warning signs of danger, and together with them taking off and flee.
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