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Hi Birders,
Ron Corinaldi mentioned in his posting of 22/4/04
that the NPWS Ranger at Bourke had said that "it was a new occurrence (for
Red-tailed Black Cockatoos) to strip the White Cedars of berries in Bourke as
the RTB had been listed as rare...".
As RTBC have been fairly common in Bourke as long
as I remember, and have been seen there by many people over the years, I would
suggest that they have been taking the seeds of the White Cedars there for the
same period. The recognised distribution of RTBC in NSW is for North-west of the
State from the Queensland Border, south along the Darling River and its
tributories to as far south as Menindee. it is regularly seen at Wilcannia,
Tilpa, Louth through upstream to Brewarrina.The bird is definately not "rare" in
that part of its range. It has disappeared however from the area in the far
north-east of the State around Murwillumbah north to the Border, where is once
regularly reported up to the 1960s. There have been no confirmed records for
coastal NSW since that time.
Alan Morris
Birtding NSw Records
Officer
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