david taylor wrote:
Tom,
A Gang Gang Cockatoo was reported a year or two ago from the same
area, so possibly the same bird.
Sounds very much like it is an escapee.
The following message was sent in 2003
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Gang -gang Cockatoos in Queensland
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:14:48 +1000 From: "Gold Coast Birds"
> <> To: "birding-aus"
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> Yesterday (July 31st) the Gold Coast Bird Group visited the Venman
> Bushland National Park near Mt Cotton - South of Brisbane.We
> located 2+ Gang-gang Cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum). A single
> bird was intially found by Hans Beste, and subsequently viewed by
> the whole group. A further search of the area found a second bird
> and from the number and position of calls heard at least 3 birds
> were present. A general consensus of the group was that these birds
> did not act like 'escapees'! If these birds are indeed ' wild
> birds' this could probably be the first record for Queensland.
>
>
> Gold Coast Bird Group.
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Maybe the same bird? At the time I asked around avicultural circles
and no one appeared to have had any escape in that area.
cheers,
Mike Owen
Sunshine Coast
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