Gang-gang Cockatoo at Hawker, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 7 Sep 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 7 Sep 2021 | sangio7 |
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sangio7
wrote:
7 Sep 2021
Glad to help the project Michael.
BTW, I have no photo record but they were also sitting in and eating the E. sideroxylons in our front yard (Ambalindum St) from time to time in Autumn. Still hear them "creaking" in the neighbourhood from time to time though not in the numbers they were in earlier in the year (ditto on the PNR).
sangio7 (aka Warren Bond)
BTW, I have no photo record but they were also sitting in and eating the E. sideroxylons in our front yard (Ambalindum St) from time to time in Autumn. Still hear them "creaking" in the neighbourhood from time to time though not in the numbers they were in earlier in the year (ditto on the PNR).
sangio7 (aka Warren Bond)
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
7 Sep 2021
Thanks Warran - could you please give me an estimate of the number of days a month it occurred and the average number of birds present and by Autumn I take it you mean each of the three months of April, May and June. If this is testing your memory just an estimate of the number of days over Autumn and the months involved would be great. Sorry to be pushy, but I am wondering whether the local movement of Gang-gangs may be tied to the flowering of preferred food trees
sangio7
wrote:
7 Sep 2021
I can pin-point the first occurrence because I sent an email to John Brannan about it on 4th March. On that occasion there were 2 pairs, not necessarily feeding though. That was around the time of my sighting 4374513 where a pair was checking out the hollows in the big gum (blakelyi?) next door. [The sulphur-cresteds have first dibs on those, though, and seem to keep the gang-gangs away; there's been quite a lot of chomping going on there by them lately so I expect they'll nest there again.]
In the weeks after that there were as many as 10 or a dozen individuals in our trees and the trees in nearby houses at any one time. We stopped noticing them regularly when it got seriously cold, that that might have been us stopping rather than them. The sideroxylons have had a very strange season, flowering right through winter and still flowering now (much to the delight of the wattle birds) but no sign of gang-gangs in them for probably 3 months. But then I guess the latter prefer the nuts rather than the flowers (although the crimson rosellas are foraging in there when the wattle birds let them) so maybe we'll see the gang-gangs again once this lot of flowers produce fruit. I'll keep you posted.
In the weeks after that there were as many as 10 or a dozen individuals in our trees and the trees in nearby houses at any one time. We stopped noticing them regularly when it got seriously cold, that that might have been us stopping rather than them. The sideroxylons have had a very strange season, flowering right through winter and still flowering now (much to the delight of the wattle birds) but no sign of gang-gangs in them for probably 3 months. But then I guess the latter prefer the nuts rather than the flowers (although the crimson rosellas are foraging in there when the wattle birds let them) so maybe we'll see the gang-gangs again once this lot of flowers produce fruit. I'll keep you posted.
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