[UNCLASSIFIED] sulphur-crested cockatoos

["Yarden Oren" <>]

Last weekend enjoying Uriarra Xing in the evening, some 30-40 cockatoos were settling in for roosting in the Casuarinas on the east bank.

From memory it seems a typical phenomenon with much larger numbers at times (maybe had I stayed long enough).

 

Yarden

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Benj - flocks (often noisy) of S-C cockatoos flying towards the Cotter in the evening and into the suburbs in the morning have been a regular sight in Chapman over the past 30 years, with their size varying according to the season (sometimes upwards of 500).

 

I've always assumed this was to go to and from their roosting sites.  While this makes sense I have no real proof.  If I recall correctly McComas Taylor once tried to find their roosting sites in the Murrumbidgee Valley in the late 1980s.

 

Pre-fire the King Parrots moved in the same direction, but this is far less obvious now. Interestingly Galahs move in the other direction, presumably preferring to roost in the suburbs as they sometimes do round my place.

 

Jack Holland