HI Everyone,
Apologies if this has been answered before. A neighbour showed me
pictures of a number of SC cockatoos that have been marked with small
spots of different coloured dyes in the middle of their backs-orange,
blue, purple I think from memory.
I wondered if it was a cheap identification/marking method but the
markings didn't seem to be unique, at least a couple of them had the
same colour combination although they might still have been different
enough to differentiate them if you knew them well...
Vaguely similarly, I remember a few years ago there was a case of blue
cockatoos in Sydney where the birds had perhaps been accidentally dyed
with a road spraying chemical but these spots are small and localised.
Thoughts...
Peter
PS re I also went for a wander near the seed node on Majura on the
off-chance the Babbler might be around -drew a blank :(
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