Boobook Owl - Earrings

Hand shaped and hand-painted Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo clay earrings featuring sterling silver hooks, by Songbird Collection.  

With a foundation centred around the love of birds, ethical production and conservation, Songbird Collection have raised and passed on over $10 000 to Australian Bird life projects. Founder Alexandra Sommer brings her rich background in design and her appreciation of the natural world into the foundations of her range of striking jewellery.

Curious about the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo?

A large cockatoo, it's easily identified by its mostly black plumage, many edged with yellow, a yellow cheek patch and yellow panels on the tail. The female has a larger yellow cheek patch, pale grey eye-ring (pink in males), white upper bill (grey-black in males) and black marks in the yellow tail panels.

Young birds resemble the adult female, but young males have a smaller cheek patch.

Its inhabits a variety of habitat types, favouring eucalypt woodland and pine plantations, across south-eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia to south and central eastern Queensland.

This species is at risk from habitat destruction

Size: 25x15x10mm e,

Weight: approx 40g

Materials: hand shaped and painted clay earrings, sterling silver hooks

The perfect thoughtful gift for the bird lover in your life.

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