Callocephalon fimbriatum
5 Gang-gang Cockatoo at Red Hill, ACT
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| Callocephalon fimbriatum | Liam.m | 25 Jan 2023 | |
| Callocephalon fimbriatum | BenW | 25 Jan 2023 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
26 Jan 2023
The Gang-gang is a nationally endangered species and just 25 nest sites were known across its range this year - nest hollows are difficult to locate
User's notes
Chick perched on edge of hollow. Observed calling to the male, stretching its wings regularly, scratching, preening and resting. Male feeding in a nearby tree, and female about 100 metres away (male flew from female to nest). Michael, I can email you more photos of the chick and both adults if necessary, though unfortunately it seems I did not get any of the wing stretching!
1 comment
25 Jan 2023
Thanks Ben fantastic and sufficient images - thanks heaps for all the hours of watching you put in this year - great to get a precise date of fledging - will send a draft of the fledging vs altitude paper out when I have updated it - still two nests to fledge - It was a sugar glider in the other hollow
Location information
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- BenW Recorded by
- Eucalyptus sp. nuts. What is Gang-gang eating
- Mixed Gender
- Is perched in or near the hollow Bird behaviour at hollow
- Yes Nesting site
- Yes Repeat Observation
Collections
- Significant BenW 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
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