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FW: [canberrabirds] Re: "Pink" Cockatoo

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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Re: "Pink" Cockatoo
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:55:15 +0000

Interesting John.   Adherents to the improbable paint factory theory say some sceptics are claiming that kookaburra is only a natural mutation. 

 

From: John Harris <>
Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Re: "Pink" Cockatoo

 

Of course it could be stained in some way but Lori said it is one of two, which needs both of them to have been stained at the same time. Furthremore, the photo we have looks very evenly coloured. I am inclined to think it is genetic, in which case hybdidization is far more likely than mutation, especially as there are two. SC and MM Cockatoos do breed in captivity. While I not personally aware of any confirmed interbreeding in the wild, it is entirely possible. What IS confirmed is that MM eggs can be laid in the same nesting hollow as SC eggs and incubated by the SCs. Those MMs bond with the SCs and join the SC flock. So why could they not breed?

By the way, while I am on this subject, my friend (and his friends) on the north coast still sometimes see the orange kookaburra I reported early last year.

Copy of original chatline report last year below.   

 

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A friend in Murwillumbah (North NSW) is seeing this orange Kookaburra regularly. I know the sceptics will say it has had an accident in a paint factory or something, but my friend says it looks nothing like that and the individual feathers are quite distinct and all the markings are sharp. Any thoughts?

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: steven <>
Date: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 9:12 am
To: John Harris <>, Lori Gould <m("woodlandsandwetlands.org.au","Lori.Gould");">>, chatline <m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Re: "Pink" Cockatoo

 

Maybe just playing around in some red dirt?

 

 

 

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From: John Harris <>
Date: 18/06/2019 7:11 AM (GMT+10:00)
To: Lori Gould <>, COG List <m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">>
Subject: Re: "Pink" Cockatoo

Maybe it is descended from the Major Mitchell that used to fly with the SCs around Canberra about 10 years ago?!!

 

 

Rev Dr John Harris,

36 Kangaroo Close,

Nicholls, ACT 2913

AUSTRALIA

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From: Lori Gould <>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 7:55:25 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] "Pink" Cockatoo

 

Hi There,

 

Can anyone explain this “pink” coloured Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at Fadden Primary School? There was a second one as well but it wasn’t as pink.

 

It is not the photo, as visually it was decidedly pink (and prompted the photo in the first place).

 

Thanks Lori

 

Lori Gould

M: 0439 030 058

 

(In a non-Jerra Wetlands Capacity)

 

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