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Cockatoo deaths

To: Scot Mcphee <>
Subject: Cockatoo deaths
From: Laurie Knight <>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:14:23 +1000
Scott,

Carnaby's are the more common/widespread of the two species of WTBCs in SW WA [The other is Baudin's]

Hopetoun is a small coastal town at the Esperance end of the Fitzgerald River National Park [one of the more important biodiversity hot spots in Australia].

Regards, Laurie.

On 08/01/2010, at 11:29 AM, Scot Mcphee wrote:

Indeed the original ABC report gets the state right -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/08/2787996.htm "Hopetoun 6348"
... work experience kids at the Seven site obviously failed geography.

2010/1/8 Scot Mcphee <>

They died of boredom from watching too much golf! Sorry for the friviolity,
I could not resist. ;-)

Sorry for this also if it's a dumb question - what's a "Carnaby's Cockatoo" anyway? The picture looks like a White-tailed Black Cockatoo to me, but they are only a W.A. species aren't they, not a QLD one (as Seven news classified
that story)? Googling for "Carnaby's Cockatoo" turns up this page
http://www.birdswa.com.au/projects/carnaby/Carnabys.htm which confirms the
same species Calyptorhynchus latirostris.

The only "Hopetoun" that Google maps turns up is in Victoria, further
confusing the matter.

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