I have seen similar behaviour with Cacatuidae in general and SCCs in
particular. On one occasion I came through the lights at the intersection of
King George's Road and Princess Highway in Carss Park and found five SCCs
gathered around or near a dead conspecific in the gutter. Those familiar
with this southern Sydney intersection will be used to the spectacle of SCCs
and Little Corellas dive bombing the six lanes of traffic and occasionally
getting hit - no different to any other group of 25somethings in WRXs or
Lancers on the Queens turnpike.
So knowing there was serious risk of the rest of this gang of miscreants
becoming tread marks I picked up the body, to much vocalization, and took it
home to Arncliffe (about three kilometres as the cocky flies). On going to
the flat block's bins I was verbally assaulted by about four SCC's who
appeared to have followed my car - one had a bare shoulder which identified
it as either a double or the same bird back at the roadside.
Interpretation? Well I have always been a great admirer of Donald Rumsfeld
both sartorially (that combat boot/pin stripe ensemble was beyond Zegna) and
his turn of phrase "We don't know what we don't know". So for me, like
Donny, a known, unknown.
This is one of numerous incidents like this involving cockys spp. and Indian
Mynahs on roadsides that I have seen in both the city and the country.
Chris Lloyd
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