Gang-gang Cockatoo at Stromlo, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 26 Sep 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 26 Sep 2021 | RobG1 |
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I came across the group of feathers in the first photos, I wasn't sure what they were. A couple of metres further I came across two wings (One of the wings is pictured in the fifth photo). A metre further on I, unfortunately, came across the leg, spine, and head of a male Gang-gang. Most of the flesh had been picked off. It was a fairly recent kill, as I had been to the same area the day before and it wasn't there.
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MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
26 Sep 2021
I thought that a Wedge-tail Eagle may have been the culprit and asked Stuart Rae about this. Stuart said...|The feather in photo 1 has been plucked not bitten off so likely a raptor not a cat. Although if any other feathers were bitten off it was a cat. A wedgie would have eaten the wing bones not picked them clean. A goshawk would not crunch the bones from the spine. So it does look like a Little Eagle could be a very possible candidate. They can crunch small bones. They eat rosellas whole. Gang gangs are sitting targets at the moment as the birds, especially the males are sitting outside their holes. LEs snatch rosellas when they do that, and there are plenty of them doing the same thing just now. "
So one threatened species may be sustenance for another one. Thanks for posting this interesting sighting.
So one threatened species may be sustenance for another one. Thanks for posting this interesting sighting.
Location information
- Maps Piney Ridge Block 402
- Places Stromlo, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 25 Sep 2021 02:57 PM Recorded on
- RobG1 Recorded by
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Additional information
- Male Gender
- N/A Bird behaviour at hollow
Species information
- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
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