Gang-gang Cockatoo at Booth, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 14 Feb 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 13 Feb 2022 | patrickcox |
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Moving between trees in search of Sawfly lavae to eat. Once if found a bunch it would eat three or four before moving on to a new bunch. I saw it eat around 20 and got a good video of the technique of snipping off the heard and extracting whatever part it likes to eat. After it finished eating it started chewing on pieces of dead wood.
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MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
14 Feb 2022
Thanks Partrick - much appreciated he is avoiding the sac of concentrated eucalyptus sac that the spitfire dribbles when disturbed. Avoidance of Eucalyptus dribble may be why he was moving between clumps rather than staying to eat a whole clump
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- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Booth, ACT
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- Sawfly larvae What is Gang-gang eating
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- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
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- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 5980m Recorded at altitude
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