Gang-gang Cockatoos in East Kambah

[martin butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

An interesting question.

Another interesting question is "What is native?".  The hard-core native plant person would regard any species which does not occur naturally (or possibly, in these land clearing enhanced times, has not occurred naturally) within a rather small radius of the study site.  Thus many of the Hakeas and Grevilleas, not to mention the attractive Acacia baileyana, planted in Canberra gardens are all non-native.


Martin

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

It seems to me that this is another example, as with the King-Parrots, of
birds that have bred in the hills coming into the food-rich suburbs in
Autumn.  There were 6 around the Griffith shops yesterday.  A friend in
Garran has just had adults with juvs at her feeder.

What would be interesting would be some idea of the proportion of feeding on
native sources versus exotic and artificial sources.  The former is much
less usual, in my experience.  Occasionally I see them on eucalyptus buds,
and I have seen them nibbling spitfire grubs.  Those in the bot gardens, on
eucalyptus buds and acacia pods, would, one would think, be using native
flora, but it is quite likely that there the food source, although 'native',
is an out-of-area planting.

-----Original Message-----
From: sandra henderson [
Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012 8:53 AM
To: Ace Frawley
Cc: Cog line
Subject: Gang-gang Cockatoos in East Kambah

and a group of six flew over my place in Wanniassa yesterday morning - only
the 2nd time I've ever recorded GGs in my GBS area.

sandra h

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Ace Frawley <>
wrote:
> Just saw three Gang-gang Cockatoos fly past in East Kambah.  If I
> include the western side of Mt Taylor NR, I don't see them very much
> over this way - probably less than five times a year, on average.  
> Might go outside now and look for swifts.

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