Little Corellas

[Mark Clayton <>]

I have noticed similar even over recent weeks. However a word of caution deciding they are young birds as I have also seen both Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Little Corellas feeding begging birds that turned out to have Parrot Beak and Feather Disease. I have watched lone birds with obvious PBFD give this begging call even when there are no other cockatoos in sight. At present I have around 4 or 5 different Little Corellas with PBFD in different stages around my place and occasionally hear this begging call. The local Australian Magpies savagely pick on any cocky with really obvious signs of this terrible introduced disease.

Mark

On 11/06/2021 2:10 pm, shorty via Canberrabirds wrote:

I have been getting a lot of Little Corellas at my place for a while now and today was no different except today i heard a begging young and spotted an adult feed it, when i got closer i could also hear a second one begging. I started to record the begging call on my phone and got a very short recording of the young just before the flock ( 300 estimated ) took off in a very noisy manner. I note on the COG breeding records that there are none for dependent young in June..

I have put the recording on my eBird list.

 https://ebird.org/checklist/S89975993

Shorty

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