Updated 20
Feb 2019, 3:02am
Western
Australia's bird watching community is abuzz with joy following a sighting of a
rare yellow-feathered forest red-tailed black cockatoo spotted frolicking in a
tree outside a regional police station.
The
bird's plumage is thought to be the result of a genetic mutation opposite of
albinism called leucism, which has left the bird with brilliant yellow feathers
in place of should have been red or black ones.
Though
not confirmed to be the same bird, a similarly marked cockatoo has been sighted
and photographed just south of Perth in Bedfordale, more than 150 kilometres
north of the most recent sighting in a lemon-scented gum tree outside Bunbury
Police Station.
The ABC
was alerted to the bird's presence by Bunbury-based environmental biologist and
avid bird-watcher, Johnny Prefumo, who first sighted it in early February.
"I
was driving when I first saw it and at first I thought it may have been the
light, but when I twigged as to what it was I almost had a car accident,"
Mr Prefumo said.
"It
was half by chance that I was walking past the police station and heard a big
flock of cockatoos, looked up and there she was.
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