2 Gang-gang Cockatoo at Red Hill, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 17 Nov 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 17 Nov 2019 | JonSteinbeck |
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A male Gang-gang Cockatoo was perched near a hollow about two-thirds up in a tree. He was sitting there silently. He seemed to notice my interest and moved slightly away from the hollow. After a few minutes he flew south to another tree. He stood there very quietly, and although I scanned the tree, I could not see a female. As luck would have it, while I bent down to make some notes, the female appeared. Because I was not looking, I am not sure if she flew from another tree, possibly the first tree, or appeared from a hollow in this tree. Both birds were reasonably quiet in this second tree. I noted later, while looking at the photographs, that her left eye possibly had some half-red feathers around it. Both birds stayed in the tree for a little while before first the male, then the female, flew to the south-west, out of sight behind some trees. (Hollow not on spreadsheet)
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- True Nesting site
- Mixed Gender
- Perched near hollow Hollow nester behaviour
Species information
- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
- Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 5980m Recorded at altitude
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