Callocephalon fimbriatum
Gang-gang Cockatoo at Cook, ACT
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| Callocephalon fimbriatum | CarbonAI | 23 Oct 2024 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
24 Oct 2024
Reporting where you see, the distinctive looking "Baldy" is telling us much about Gang-gang nest hollow selection and movement across the breeding season.
User's notes
The Baldys seem to have been bullied out of last year's hollow by the cockatoos, which now seem to have lost interest too. Since 12 October either Baldy or partner has been inside the new hollow every time I have checked. I have witnessed several changeovers (as shown in the second photo) and they have all been very cautious and very quick so I am assuming they are incubating eggs.
1 comment
24 Oct 2024
Brilliant Cath - Baldies third nest site in five years - also had a report of him from a new location in a garden Cook last week
Location information
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- CathB Recorded by
- Yes Nesting site
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- Significant CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Gang-gang movement study - sightings of identifiable birds 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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Callocephalon fimbriatum
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