Wednesday
Dec142011
Why are there so many cockatoos?
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 23:46 
Yellow Crested Cockatoo. Image by Mathew KnottChris Welsh was cycling around Mt Coot-tha on Sunday morning when he noticed more cockatoos than he'd ever seen in one spot before.
He began wondering if it was simply coincidence or whether in fact there has been an explosion in Brisbane's cockatoo population.
The University of Queensland's Professor Hugh Possingham has both an academic and person interest in birds.