Male drumming with a stick he has fashioned from a nearby living tree branch.Female mate in the hollow. #PalmCockatooProject

Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, QLD, Australia.

A male Palm Cockatoo drums on a branch using a drumstick he made from a living tree branch in another tree. Iron Range, Qld, Australia. 2022.

A male Palm Cockatoo drums on a branch using a drumstick he made from a living tree branch in another tree. Iron Range, Qld, Australia. 2022.

Sunset light on this spectacular male Palm Cockatoo, as he inspects various tree hollows throughout his territory.

This male Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) has just fashioned a stick from the branch which he's perched, and he'll soon fly to a nearby hollow to perform a drumming display!

Ths male Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) is splintering a stick into a display hollow.