Age photographer Justin McManus joined the annual count of the red-tailed black cockatoo, an endangered bird that has enormous cultural significance for First Nations people of the region
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The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is one of five subspecies of Red Tail Black Cockatoos across Australia and the most endangered, with less than 1500 remaining in the wild.Credit:Justin McManus
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Red Tail Black Cockatoo Recovery program officer Richard Hill The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is one of five subspecies of Red Tail Black Cockatoos across Australia and the most endangered, with less than 1500 remaining in the wild.Credit:Justin McManus
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Richard Hill consults a site map of RTBC habitat.Credit:Justin McManus
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The birds rest in a tree.Credit:Justin McManus
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Count volunteer Mike Sverns in the field for the Red Tailed Black Cockatoo recovery project cocky count.Credit:Justin McManus
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Male and female South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoos.Credit:Justin McManus
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The Cockies have a very limited diet, consisting of Brown and Desert Stringybark seed and Buloke seed.Credit:Justin McManus
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The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo (SERTBC) Project Coordinator with Birdlife Australia Bron Perryman.Credit:Justin McManus
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A Juvenile Red Tailed Black Cockatoo Credit:Justin McManus
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Richard Hill and volunteer Evelyn Nicholson checking tree canopy health to predict seed production in coming years.Credit:Justin McManus
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A red-tailed black cockatoo in flight.Credit:Justin McManus
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Kerrupmara-Gunditjmara Boandig man Travis Lovett, whose tribal totem is the RTBC. Travis is a commissioner with the Yoorrook Justice Commission and wears his tail feathers during official hearing for the commission.Credit:Justin McManus
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Kerrupmara-Gunditjmara Boandig man Travis Lovett, whose tribal totem is the red tailed black cockatoo. Credit:Justin McManus
