Black parrot

Lesser Vasa or Black parrot (Coracopsis nigra) - Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte & Seychelles

Don't these beautiful, crested and wickedly intelligent birds inspire a whole lot of emotions when you own one? Let's check out the various types of cockatoos to find out the avatars in which these lively, fluffy aves go aflutter, causing colorful ripples in the cradle of Nature!

Macaulay Library ML162001471; © Leonie Beaulieu; Burdekin, Queensland, Australia

"The Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), also known as the Goliath Cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family. It is the only member in subfamily Microglossinae and the only member of the monotypic genus, Probosciger. Its unique position within the cockatoo family has been confirmed by molecular studies." (Taken from Wikipedia. Read more here.) Photo taken during an EcoTourism project of the Davao Photographers for Peace for Davao City, Philippines. This was…

Black Parrot, taken with a Canon EOS-1D camera at 1/74 s, F 5.60, in Singapore, Singapore SGP

What an amazing bird! (Photo: Alex Cearns)

Hard to capture, these black birds, the exposure has to be just right. The camera's auto exposure tends to compensate by over-exposing.

A large black cockatoo native to Australia. Females have speckles and bone colored beaks.