And in my latest roost count at the Fadden roost where I have done regular
counts for a year and a half I had a record numbers of Corellas, ~610. But even
more significant was the number of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, which was almost
double the number of the previous high count, at ~715.
Ryu
--- Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
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> This is going to be a big year for corellas. Around 200 in the vicinity of
> Captain Cook/Carnegie intersection yesterday. Some on median strip others
> feeding noisily in nearby trees: conifers, pinoak, Chinese elm, liquidambar.
> These are the most playful and excitable of the local cockatoos. Among the
> ground feeders several pairs (not necessarily paired) were sparring and
> grappling, the encounter often being initiated by a bird that would fling
> itself on the ground, upside-down, in front of another.
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