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The Sulphur-crested cockatoo is a large & beautiful bird. And yes, often noisy!    But, have you ever watched the grace of their flight, the way they play with their fellow birds, or open 'hard nuts to crack'?    They feature in much of my work as I see them as messengers who 'keep a look out', always posting one bird higher in the tree to warn the flock of any dangers. These special birds are the totem for Kuku-Thaypan people of the Quinkan Country around Laura. They were also once the emblem on our Kuranda Primary School T-shirts growing up here! When I find them meeting my path, gleaming & sunlit, or screeching and wheeling in the winds, depending...

Cicadas, Wattle, a Jacaranda, Kangaroos. The setting sun, lighting the head of our rainbowed Serpent, and held at the end by the female Black Cockatoo, heralding the rains that will soon come again to drench the parched land and keep the Rain-forest being just that. "May this painting bring peace, joy and respect for this beautiful place we are privileged to call home, to all who gaze upon it!”