canberrabirds

Median strip party season

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Subject: Median strip party season
From: Ryu Callaway <>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:55:28 +0000
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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