Support the bushfire recovery of South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoos The South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami) is a threatened bird found in southern Queensland, NSW, the ACT and eastern Victoria. Glossy Black-Cockatoos,...
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Support the bushfire recovery of South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoos The South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami) is a threatened bird found in southern Queensland, NSW, the ACT and eastern Victoria. Glossy Black-Cockatoos, also known as “Glossies”, have lost large areas of their breeding and foraging habitat to bushfires, droughts, land clearing, urban development and inappropriate planned fires. We must collect data on Glossies and their habitat, so they can be protected and given the opportunity to recover. How to identify Glossies of different sex and age Diagram – Laura X Tan Glossies are specialist feeders Glossies feed almost exclusively on seeds found The presence of chewings can show us where in the cones of she-oak trees (Allocasuarina and Glossies have been feeding, and the colour of Casuarina species). They are also selective about chewings can indicate when birds last fed on which she-oak trees they feed on, and often the tree. return to the s
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