I guess I shouldn't have used the term 'oval' - the cockatoos
weren't on the school oval, but on the smaller grassed area across
the road that has the tennis courts in one corner. It's about 1/3
the area of the school oval.
Nick
On 09/05/11 07:25, martin butterfield wrote:
Looking at Google Earth the oval is about 150m x 180m giving
27,000 sqm. So, if the cockies were spread evenly and each was at
the centre of a square of side 3m there would have been 3,000 of
them. Taking an alternate approach, if there were 1,000 cockies
the side of the 'square' they occupied would be about 5.2m.
Martin
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Nick Payne <m("internode.on.net","nick.payne");">>
wrote:
I went past the Telopea Park School in Barton late yesterday
afternoon, and the oval between NSW Crescent and Fitzroy St
was absolutely covered with SC Cockatoos. I have never seen
such a number in one location. There were so many I didn't try
a count, but there was a cockatoo every few square metres over
the entire oval, and and the oval must be several thousand
square metres, so there was a minimum of several hundred
cockatoos.
Nick Payne
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