In my garden the Manchurian Pear trees are being shredded by SC Cockatoos, and by the less damaging Crimson Rosella. Manchurian Pear trees are also common
street trees.
A long pair of tongs makes picking up the bunches of leaves quite a bit easier!
Jean
From: Dennis Ayliffe [
Sent: Friday, 26 January, 2018 12:38 PM
To: Martin Butterfield
Cc: Geoffrey Dabb; COG List
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Influx
A Chinese pistachio tree (more of a bush actually) was festooned with Sulphur -crested cockatoos this morning in Fraser.
Dennis Ayliffe
Sent from my iPad
On 26 Jan 2018, at 12:20 PM, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
Your mention of the shredding of trees causes me to recall that in Queanbeyan many of the street trees - of species unknown to me - are currently taking some damage to the outer foliage. In most
cases this is revealed by the leaves on the ground, rather than seeing the defoliation in action, butI think that the main culprits are Sulphur-crested Cockatoos.
On 26 January 2018 at 12:03, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
Others might already have experienced the same thing but for me today saw the first major influx of Gang-gangs, more than 20 birds, mainly males. They are wheeling around the neighbourhood,
noisy and excited, exploring available food sources. In this street the focus was again on the Chinese Pistacios of which several have a heavy crop of berries. This is rather early for the annual shredding of these trees but now the GGs have started other
parrots/cockatoos will join in, particularly King Parrots. No Corroboree Frogs as yet, though.
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