United front continues for Carnaby's fight

All three species are being used in research; Baudin’s black cockatoos, Forest Red-Tailed black cockatoos and (pictured) Carnaby’s black cockatoos. Image: Ron & BethWESTERN Australian research groups and conservationists are continuing to work together in the fight to conserve the Carnaby’s black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) which has long been recognised as the Swan Coastal Plain’s most iconic bird, once blackening Perth skies with countless flock sizes – now seriously endangered.

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Bird trapped in Delegate

The NPWS is reminding locals that trapping and keeping native wildlife is an offence, following the trapping of cockatoo in Delegate recently.A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo was illegally trapped from the wild in Delegate recently and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) reminds everyone that this is a serious offence.

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Sweet-beaked kākā find tree-sap irresistible

Kākā juvenile GG-V demonstrating how to sap feed by gouging through the bark with the convenient can-opener attached to her face, also known as her beak! (Photo by Kerry Charles)Skraaaark.  Alfie Kākā here, interviewing Kerry Charles, who has just completed her thesis “Urban human-wildlife conflict: North Island kākā (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) in Wellington City”.

Conflict!  Sounds like I’ll need my foreign correspondent’s flak jacket for this one.  But the set-up looks friendly enough. (Like many dispatches from the front line, this is to be conducted over drinks and nibbles in a neighbourhood watering-hole, though I can hear nearby skrarks and wibbles from a group of young larrikin green-banders just outside).  Although it’s full moon, I stick to just one sugar water and a few almonds.

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Confiscated: Hundreds of Parrots and Cockatoos in Tobelo, North Maluku

The condition of the confiscated birdsNature Conservation Agency, Military Police, quarantine staffs, and harbor officials collaborated to confiscate hundreds of parrots and cockatoos who were about to be smuggled out from Tobello, North Maluku. Approximately 250 birds from various species like Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus), Chattering Lory (Lorius garrulus), Violet-necked Lory (Eos squamata), White Cockatoo (Cacatua alba), Red-cheeked Parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi) , and 3 cuscuses. Those animals were going to be smuggled through Mentari Cristal ship by people wearing uniforms similar to those of Indonesia National Army.

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Orange-Bellied Parrots to get Werribee Gym

Orange bellied parrot practicing its wings. Photo: Chris FieldThe critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot will receive a much-needed ‘wing-up’ with a new free flight aviary to be built at Werribee Open Range Zoo within the next year.  

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