Cypresses (Cupressa macrocarpa)

Another little local difficulty: a proposal to fell some
"significant" cypresses around a golf course.

Do cypresses have any particular value for birds or other
wildlife?

I know larger birds nest in them around here (magpies, ravens,
magpie-larks, butcherbirds, frogmouths and, possibly, goshawks
and herons), with rosellas sometimes using holes in the trunks.
Other species roost in them, eg. the local crested pigeons seem
to prefer them as roosting sites. 

But I suspect they don't provide any food and in the longer term
it would certainly be preferable to have native trees plus
understorey rather than these colonial relics.

Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife, SE Melbourne


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