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The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia. It has a short crest on its head, its plumage is mostly brownish-black, and it has yellow cheek patches and a yellow tail band. The male has a black beak and pink eye-rings and the female has a bone-coloured beak and grey eye-rings. The cockatoos flap deeply and slowly in flight, and their loud wailing calls carry for long distances. They are found in forests from eastern Queensland to southeastern South Australia. Two subspecies are recognised, although Tasmanian and southern mainland populations may be a third. The cockatoos feed on wood-boring grubs and seeds. They nest in hollows in large trees, and although they remain common throughout much of their range, habitat fragmentation and loss of suitable trees has caused local population declines. In some urban areas the cockatoos have adapted to humans. This species is listed by CITES, an international protection agreement. (Full article...)

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On this day

July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964); Statehood Day in Lithuania (1253); San Fermín begins in Pamplona, Spain

R34 airship

1560 – Scotland and England signed the Treaty of Edinburgh to formally conclude the Siege of Leith and replace the Scottish–French Auld Alliance.
1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
1919 – The Royal Air Force's R34 airship (pictured) landed in Mineola, New York, to complete the first east-to-west transatlantic crossing by an aircraft.
1989 – A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member carried out a suicide attack by hijacking a bus and forcing it into a ravine near Kiryat Ye'arim, Israel.
2009 – Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.

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Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican artist who created many paintings, self-portraits and other works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She often featured her own body in her paintings, presenting it in varying states and disguises: as wounded, broken, as a child or clothed in different outfits, such as Tehuana attire, a man's suit or European dress. Kahlo was heavily influenced by Mexicanidad, a romantic nationalism that claimed to resist the "mindset of cultural inferiority" created by colonialism by placing special importance on Mexican indigenous cultures and Aztec mythology. Her paintings also often feature imagery with roots growing out of her body; she developed a complex iconography, extensively employing pre-Columbian and Christian symbols and mythology in her paintings. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings from the work.

This picture of Kahlo was taken by American photographer Toni Frissell, as part of a 1937 photo shoot for Vogue magazine entitled "Señoras of Mexico". She is depicted outdoors, seated next to an agave plant. The photograph is in the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Photograph credit: Toni Frissell; restored by Adam Cuerden

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