Beautiful cockatoo illustrations

[aether-drifter]

Randomly found these and wanted to share! I believe this is every known species. Prints can be purchased here.

Palm cockatoo

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Carnaby's black cockatoo

Baudin's black cockatoo

Red-tailed black cockatoo

Glossy black cockatoo

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo

Blue-eyed cockatoo

 

[aether-drifter]

White (umbrella) cockatoo

Salmon-crested (Moluccan) cockatoo

Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Western corella

Little corella

Ducorps corella

Goffin's corella

Red-vented corella

Slender-billed corella

Gang-gang cockatoo

 

[aether-drifter]

Galah

Cockatiel

 

[sonja]

I love those! Gonna check out the site to purchase a couple.

 

[Mike17]

The depiction/description of what I'd call a Long-billed Corella as a "Western Corella" is confusing. The Little Corella comes in Eastern and Western. I have an Eastern but the ones around my town are Westerns (since I come from eastern Oz).

 

[Terry57]

Those are beautiful. I am going to check out that site as well as I would love to have one of the black Palm

 

[Betrisher]

Wow! How did you come by these? They're by an Australian artist, Bill Cooper, who Illustrated 'Parrots of the World' by Joe Forshaw. I - ahem - have met Mr Cooper and saw the painting in progress of the YNA that wound up on the front cover of the book! I would LOVE to be able to get hold of a copy, but they're very hard to come by. Another edition is circulating with illustrations by Frank Knight, but I prefer the Bill Cooper ones (since they're the ones I 'met').

 

[Featheredsamurai]

Beautiful art!

 

[aether-drifter]

Wow! How did you come by these? They're by an Australian artist, Bill Cooper, who Illustrated 'Parrots of the World' by Joe Forshaw. I - ahem - have met Mr Cooper and saw the painting in progress of the YNA that wound up on the front cover of the book! I would LOVE to be able to get hold of a copy, but they're very hard to come by. Another edition is circulating with illustrations by Frank Knight, but I prefer the Bill Cooper ones (since they're the ones I 'met').

I'm pretty sure I have this book, actually...is it fairly old? I can't check the title because I'm a few thousand miles from home, but I know the one I have is an illustrated encyclopedia of parrots from the 70's or 80's.

I don't remember how I came across the website, but I'm sure it was via Google image search for cockatoos or something.

 

[aether-drifter]

The depiction/description of what I'd call a Long-billed Corella as a "Western Corella" is confusing. The Little Corella comes in Eastern and Western. I have an Eastern but the ones around my town are Westerns (since I come from eastern Oz).

I saw those two species and was a bit confused, as well. As far as I knew, there were little corellas and slender-bills, but I've never heard of a "Western corella."

 

[Mike17]

The depiction/description of what I'd call a Long-billed Corella as a "Western Corella" is confusing. The Little Corella comes in Eastern and Western. I have an Eastern but the ones around my town are Westerns (since I come from eastern Oz).

I saw those two species and was a bit confused, as well. As far as I knew, there were little corellas and slender-bills, but I've never heard of a "Western corella."

According to Wikipedia, the "Western Corella" (Cacatua pastinator) was formerly known as the "Western Long-billed Corella". There are two subspecies; there are feral populations in Western Au of the eastern bird, the Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris. Confusing, eh!

 

[Mare Miller]

Wow! Thank you for sharing!

 

[MikeyTN]

Those are very nice!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[Betrisher]

Yeah, 'Parrots of the World' was first published in the seventies from memory. The first edition was a limited one of 1000 signed copies. The second edition is the one I'd like to get hold of. I missed out on one on ebay a while back by one measly dollar. !!! Bill Cooper's illustrations are just astounding in the perfection of their detail and the natural poses of the birds. He worked largely from skins, but also travelled widely in order to know the habits and ecology of each bird he painted.

Watching him apply paint to the canvas that eventually became the YHA was incredible! Although I can draw fairly respectably, I have no idea how you put paint on canvas and make it look like something real. Bill would just load his brush and in a few seemingly random strokes, feathers would appear! If you look at the pictures, there's enormous detail in the vegetation and background as well. Each painting is a work of art in its own right - which is why I'd love to find my own copy of the book!

 

[imbadatmakingusernames]

Wow! They look like they're painted with maybe watercolor + gouache