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Juveniles show some yellow spots on the wings and yellow ventral barring.

The female has large yellow blotches on the head, and an orange-red tail panel with fine black bars. Young birds have yellow spots or streaks on their breast, belly and flanks, with some yellow spots on the cheeks and sides of the head. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is a small (48 cm long) black cockatoo with a small crest, brown-tinged head and a red tail panel. The tail panels on adult males tend to be solid red (no black barring). Adult females have irregular yellow patches on the head, and the tail panels tend to be redder with orange/yellow and black bars but may become less barred and redder with age. It has a brown-black head, red or red with orange/yellow tail panels, and an otherwise dull black body. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is the smallest of Australia’s five species of black-cockatoos (~48cm). They have been recorded near Paluma in the Wet Tropics of far north Queensland. Glossies occur from south-eastern Queensland to Mallacoota, extending west to the Riverina and Narrabri in New South Wales. Least familiar among them is the Glossy Black-Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami. Seeds are contained in woody cones (about the size of an olive but with a rough texture), and Glossy Black-Cockatoos extract them with their large and bulbous bills. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami), however, is a different species to the well-known Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus). Black-cockatoos are among Australians’ most beloved birds. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is the smallest out of the five black-cockatoos. She-oaks are native, evergreen trees with long, needle-like foliage. similar in appearance to the male except for irregular yellow patches around the neck and head, and orange/red and black horizontal barred tail panels. Glossy Black-Cockatoos are strongly associated with she-oak trees ( Allocasuarina and Casuarina), their primary food source. was declared a vulnerable species on 23 August 2010 (Determination DI2012-11) in accordance with section 38 of the. Adult males and females can usually be distinguished by their appearance. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo occurs across eastern Australia, as well as on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.