Gang-gang Cockatoo at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 3 Oct 2022 | Amata | ||
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | 3 Oct 2022 | LisaH |
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User's notes
I'm wondering if this is the same female with a deformed beak from sighting #4439813 (30.7.22). In that sighting, @ChrisDavey noted that the beak tip could snap off? If it's the same bird, then I think the curved tip may have broken off. She did not close her beak at all while I was observing, and tried to chew part of the hollow without success. I did not sight the male, but there was loud and audible, echoey scraping and scratching from within the hollow, which I assume was the male. This is a problematic tree if they choose to nest - home to six Kreffts gliders (I am reliably informed) and a bee colony.
4 comments
ChrisDavey
wrote:
18 Oct 2022
Lisa, I think you are correct. The upper mandible could well have broken off and then reshaped with working the hollow. To me there are some white edgings to the breast feathers which look similar in one of your images to the one posted at Callocephalon fimbriatum (identifiable birds)
LisaH
wrote:
18 Oct 2022
That's really interesting - thank you. And great if we can use markers like white edging and breast feathers to ID individuals
Location information
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 2 Oct 2022 04:53 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Collections
Gang-gang movement study - sightings of identifiable birds -
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Additional information
- Mixed Gender
- Entering the hollow Bird behaviour at hollow
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- 4413 images trained Machine learning
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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