Michael Whitehead wrote:
While out at Matcham this morning I observed a
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo chopping into the bark of an Acacia tree at
about 1 metre above the ground. After seeing me the bird flew to another
more distant Acacia and proceeded to start tearing strips of bark off
higher branches. Can anyone shed any light on why they might do this?
Mike
They'll be looking for wood-boring grubs - something of a regular YTBC
delicacy. They can make quite a mess of a rotten tree ...
L.
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