Quite right, Robin. I inflicted the below on you at the time …
From: Robin Hide [
Sent: Friday, 14 February 2014 9:51 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Cc: Chris Davey <> ;
Subject: [canberrabirds] Gang-gangs breeding in urban Canberra
This morning’s article by Ian Warden on the Gang-gang survey in the Canberra Times (http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/winging-it-on-cocky-knowledge-ganggang-survey-20140213-32n8z.html ) reports Chris Davey as saying that we currently don’t know if GGs breed in urban Canberra and that there’s ” no proof, yet, that they ever nest here”.
There is however a documented Gang-gang nest report from December 2009 when TAMS cut down the tall E viminalis tree in Corroboree Park (on “safety grounds”) , and had to call in the RSPCA to remove two GG nestlings from a nest in that ill-fated tree – see the details in the Chatline archives below.
Robin Hide
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2009-12/msg00250.html
