Hi Peter,
There is a research group at the Research School of Biology ANU with a project
called CleverCockies who are marking cockies as you describe. I have met them
in Campbell. You can contact the group at
@BigCityBirds1 on Twitter
I have had some trouble contacting them on this but you may have more success.
Good luck,
Susan Robertson
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Subject: Dye spots on Cockatoo Backs
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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