The yellow-tailed black cockatoos come through this time every year and rip through tree bark to get borer grubs out of the tree trunks.
Sometimes this may kill a young tree, sometimes they break in a storm later, but they were doomed without the grub removal.
But if the tree lives, in around 80 - 100 years the wound will become a hollow. Hence I call them the town planners.
Thank you for the awesome comments and questions on my photos
A very interesting explanation of what this bird does and how that fits the title. An well documented to see what it looks like up close, for those of us who never see one in person!
@rickster549 yep, people complain when bush is removed and the large parrots start destroying house, cars, power poles etc. but they have a job and boy do they do it well!
