Callocephalon fimbriatum
Gang-gang Cockatoo at Hughes, ACT
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| Callocephalon fimbriatum | Amata | 3 Oct 2022 | |
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | LisaH | 3 Oct 2022 |
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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
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 https://canberra.naturemapr.org/species/15862
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
- LisaH Recorded by
- Mixed Gender
- Entering the hollow Bird behaviour at hollow
- Yes Nesting site
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- Gang-gang movement study - sightings of identifiable birds LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT threatened species! Callocephalon fimbriatum Parrots Birds
Species information
- Callocephalon fimbriatum Scientific name
- Gang-gang Cockatoo Common name
- Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 5980m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Callocephalon fimbriatum
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Nesting site
JFMAMJJASOND
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