Gang-gang Cockatoo at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 8 Oct 2018 | natureguy | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 7 Oct 2018 | BIrdsinCanberra |
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I heard a Gang-gang but initially I only saw Galahs. The male Gang-gang was calling out. The female was much higher up in the tree. The male flew off with a Galah escorting him on his way. When I climbed higher I heard a single call but I could not see a bird. My attention was momentarily caught by some kangaroos, which drew my gaze to a tree where I saw the male Gang-gang climbing down a dead branch using his feet and beak, photo 4. I noticed the hollow he climbed into, photo 1. Once he was in the hollow, he was completely out of sight. I only saw him again when a jogger went by and she was shouting to try to control one of her dogs. The noise apparently bought the male out again, who went to the top of the dead branch I had first seen him on. After a short while there he descended again into the hollow and I did not see him again before I left. In looking later at a photograph of the overall tree I realised the female had also perched herself at the top of that dead branch.
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Location information
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 6 Oct 2018 08:23 AM Recorded on
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Additional information
- True Nesting site
- True Repeat Observation
- Seen entering hollow Hollow nester behaviour
- Mixed Gender
Species information
- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
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- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
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