2 Gang-gang Cockatoo at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 1 Jan 2020 | ArcherCallaway | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 31 Dec 2019 | JackyF |
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This follows on from TomT's sighting 4246816 just before. Female nestling was stuck half out of hollow (see Tom's photos, which are the first nestling sighting at this hollow, active for previous two seasons but no nestlings actually seen). Parents flew into tree at dusk. Male chewed bark and fed it to the nestling (photo 1). He then spent several minutes pushing first her head and then her stuck wing back into the hollow (photo 2 shows him pushing her wing). The adult female bobbed up and down on next branch anxiously, with soft calling between them. When the nestling was fully back into the hollow, he went in after her and the adult female flew to the rim. After a few minutes, the male flew off, then the female went right into the hollow, turned and sat looking out (photo 3, adult female in direct centre of photo, very dark and air full of choking smoke).
5 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
1 Jan 2020
Thanks Jacky and Tom - an amazing storey that should be written up in the Canberra Bird Notes
JackyF
wrote:
3 Jan 2020
Thanks TomT, JennyT and I are very excited about your ANBG hollow sighting, we are really hoping for more photos there.
Location information
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
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- True Nesting site
- True Repeat Observation
- Mixed Gender
- Seen entering hollow Hollow nester behaviour
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- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
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- Non-invasive or negligible
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