4 Gang-gang Cockatoo at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 16 Sep 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 16 Sep 2021 | BIrdsinCanberra |
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I noticed a female Gang-gang Cockatoo high in what appeared to be a dead tree, which was missing its crown. Initially, all I could see was her but no male. She was at the entrance to a northward facing hollow right at the top of the tree. It seemed to be a large hollow and she would occasionally bend inside making me think that she was looking for water rather than looking at a nesting hollow because she stayed outside, although she didn’t raise her head to let the water flow down her throat. I thought that she was alone until the male took off from a branch further down the tree. He stayed very low, flying almost at my head height very close past to a wattle tree just behind me, where he perched on a lower branch. Once in the tree he moved around a little until he found some wattle blossoms to munch on. He was not perturbed by my presence, occasionally looking at me while he snacked away. I didn’t stay too long because I did not want to worry him
4 comments
BIrdsinCanberra
wrote:
16 Sep 2021
Many thanks, I was happy to get him among the yellow wattle blossoms.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
16 Sep 2021
Fantastic observations - scoring two goals with the one kick (feeding and hollow)- This is the first amongst 1300 feeding records of a Gang-gang eating wattle blossom in this case of Acacia decurrens. Thanks keep them coming
Location information
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Survey points GG139 GG202
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 12 Sep 2021 07:50 AM Recorded on
- BIrdsinCanberra Recorded by
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- Wattle What is Gang-gang eating
- Mixed Gender
- Is perched in or near the hollow Bird behaviour at hollow
- True Nesting site
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- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
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- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
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