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Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

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Subject: Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
From: "Jack and Andrea Holland" <>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:30:20 +1000
After hearing this species in the Chapman/NE Cooleman Ridge area since about mid June (and catching only fleeting glimpses) I finally positively identified it about 7:30 am this morning with binos as it flew low over my GBS site.  This marks a return after about 20 months of (presumably) the same bird that regularly flew over etc from May 2004 to October 2005.
 
I'll be away for most of the weekend and anyone wishing to see this bird would best go to the end of Kathner St Chapman, and follow the track to the dam and just beyond (where the pied butcherbird was in April) from about 7 am for an hour or so in the morning, or from mid pm.  If you're lucky you may see it fly over briefly, listen for and be alerted by the very distinctive call.  It loosely associates with  the Sulphur-crested Cockatoos but is different and slower flier.
 
Diamond Firetail and Flame/Scarlet Robins have also been in this area, and this morning I saw  male Rufous Whistler nearby, a rare winter sighting for here.
 
Jack Holland
 
 
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