Links to wild cockatiel pics

I tried to avoid pictures of captive birds in natural-looking settings, and get pictures of wild birds only.  But there's no guarantee that all these birds are wild.

Photo collections

Jim Bendon's flickr album
Arkive - link starts in middle of series with wild cockatiels drinking because those are my faves. But you can click back to the beginning.
Facebook - Jim Oatley/Alice Springs Bird Tours photo album - hundreds of excellent bird and wildlife photos, including quite a few of cockatiels.
Birdway - Ian Montgomery - photo #6 with a cock landing amongst some apparent fledglings is especially nice. Also #8 and #9 showing a cock feasting on sorghum.  All shot in Queensland.

Richard Waring's blog has many excellent photo collections. Scroll down the page at all his links
Richard Waring - drinking, flying, posing with full moon. Includes videos
Richard Waring - nesting tiels
Richard Waring - wild cockatiel family (includes feeding a fledgling)
Richard Waring - mulga parrots and cockatiels
Richard Waring - Docker River zebra finches and cockatiels

Richard Waring - Major Mitchell cockatoos and cockatiels
Richard Waring - cockatiels, little corella, and pied butcherbird 
Richard Waring - colourful parrots - multiple species with cockatiels in the middle
Richard Waring - Central Australian colours - multiple species with cockatiels in the middle
Richard Waring - archive of multiple species - tiel photos are at the very bottom.

Craig Nieminski's flickr page - various activities
mdahlem.net - ground foraging and other photos
Bill & Mark Bell flickr page - ground foraging series - keep clicking forward until you start getting picture of captive tiels.
The Gap Year - wild Goschen cockatiels - at Goschen Bushland Reserve, Victoria

Marj K - Queensland waterhole - at Long Waterhole, Winton, Queensland. The 3rd picture is best. One cock looks like he's skipping across the water.
Portal das Calopsitas (old) - a Portuguese site that unfortunately has a lot of broken picture links.
Portal das Calopsitas (new) - a newer version of the Portuguese site, with part of the same text and a set of different pictures
Mango Verde - Tom Tarrant - cock feeding on sorghum

iGoTerra - Mikael Rosen - a striking water hole photo and one more pic
Discover Life site - at Kakadu Highway in the Northern Territory. Habitat isn't visible so you can't really tell that they're wild.
Whitworth images - tiel hen drinking - preceded by one photo of cock on branch

Single photos

Wikipedia - tiels on a wire - the clothespin in the middle of the picture is a hoot.
Annette Teng - tree foraging
Unidentified blog - cocks fighting
Cairns.nu - cock in nest tree

Birdforum - cock on barbed wire
Facebook - Jim Oatley/Alice Springs Bird Tours - cockatiel drinking from puddle - I'm sure it's a dup of the photo album posted earlier, but it's funny enough to list again. The bird looks like he's barfing.
mrdehoot flickr page - color contrast between cock and hen - at Kangaroo Flat, Victoria
Jon Thornton flickr page - these look like juveniles

Julian Robinson flickr page - in flight
Stephen Zozaya flickr page - in flight - near Boulia, Queensland 
Jennie Thynne flickr page - flock in tree
Ian Fraser - scroll down for small flock in tree

Greg McLachlan flickr page - pair in tree
Jon Irvine flickr page - cock at nest hole
Alain Gicart flickr page - cock in nest hole
Cairns.nu - solitary male on branch

Fine Art America - cockatiels flying to desert water hole - there are also some galahs on the ground next to the water.
Tumblr - tiels at water hole by Lurking Crow
Laval Roy flickr page - hen in blue gum swamp near Sydney
Facebook - Mike Owen - tiels in tree

Getty Images - large flock descending to feed, Boulia, Queensland
Unidentified blog - tiels on wire with female scarlet chested parakeet (I think)
Alwyn Simple flickr page - a pair taking off
BirdForum - tcollins - hen at Pine Creek, Northern Territory

Birderz - Tom Tarrant - a pair feeding on sorghum
Bush Heritage Australia - tiels at a water hole
Epoch Catcher - males in tree near Alice Springs - plus photos of other species
Rehabbers Den - ground foraging pic

Alamy - tiels at water hole in Gemtree Park, Northern Territory  A blurry stock photo marred by their annoying watermark. They want you to buy it, but aren't likely to sell many copies because the quality is poor.

The mystery of the weird-looking hen(s)

See my article on the Spot Gene for more of what this is all about. There are multiple sources on the internet with pictures of odd-looking hens, who don't look quite like the 'spot gene' phenomenon as I know it, but have some characteristics in common with it.  Specifically the yellow "blaze" and yellow feathers around the beak, lots of spots under the wings, and scalloped markings on the front of the body (which are greatly exaggerated in the photos below compared to the "normal" spot gene.  It's not clear how many different hens are shown in the links below and whether all of them are wild or not, but apparently there is at least one wild bird.

Tobias Hiyashi flickr page - mating pair Thrush chest hen? Or maybe faded cinnamon if they're not actually wild. Cinnamon gets weird and blotchy if the bird is out in the sun a lot.

Echidna Walkabout - thrush chest hen again Looks like the same pair from a different angle on a different site. May not actually be wild - photo is from somewhere on this site

World Parrot Trust - another thrush chest hen?!? This site has a series of cockatiel photos, some of them apparently wild and some obviously not wild.   Many of the "probably wild" photos are by Ian Montgomery, who has some "definitely wild" photos of cockatiels in Queensland on his website. We're specifically interested in photos #4 and #5 on the World Parrot Trust website.  #4 is a closeup of an oddly marked hen who may be a different bird than the one(s) in the first two links - she seems to have a lot more yellow around the beak than the other photos, but the lighting makes it hard to be sure. This picture is NOT on Ian Montgomery's website.  #5 in the WPT series has a blotchy hen - apparently the same one - in the bottom right of the picture. This photo is the same as picture #11 on Montgomery's website, and is identified as a wild flock in central Queensland.  Her grey coloring is dark; she does not look like faded cinnamon.

Videos

Youtube - Angus - wild cockatiels - a collection of clips "borrowed" from other sources
Youtube - OzBirdz - pair with nest hole
Youtube - Richard Waring - wild cockatiels at watering hole
Youtube - Sue Nance - wild cockatiels at watering hole
Youtube - Sue Nance - wild cockatiels at watering hole part 2

Youtube - Derek Willcox - wild cockatiels at Nyngan
Youtube - Parrot Wizard - wild cockatiels and galahs foraging together
Youtube - Parrot Wizard - wild cockatiels
Youtube - dezzlok - wild cockatiels in the suburbs
Youtube - dezzlok - more wild cockatiels in the suburbs - a pair foraging on the ground

Youtube - Blast4Music - wild cockatiels, budgies, zebra finches
Youtube - Polytelis Media - wild cockatiels with nest
Youtube - As Calopsitas - a montage of pictures from other sources, with "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana playing dramatically (and hilariously) in the background. Some of the birds are obviously either aviary birds or feral.
Youtube - Calopsitas - another montage of "borrowed" pictures, without the musical humor this time

Miscellaneous
Vincent Hrovat flickr page - pet birds not wild - cock is VERY dark
Windy City Parrot - threesome with hollow log - this picture was previously posted on the website for In Your Flock Magazine, which said the birds were wild. But I seriously doubt it. One bird looks pied and the log has nails in it. Cute picture anyway.