Authorities crack egg smuggling racket

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos pictured at Edithvale wetlands. Image by Wayne Butterworth

AN INTERNATIONAL crime syndicate based in northern Victoria is making millions of dollars smuggling endangered and exotic bird eggs in and out of the country.

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Cocky doesn't want a transmitter

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris). The males have redi eyes, dark beaks and a fainter white patch behind the eye/cheek than the female. The female has black eyes. Image by Sandra WallaceOne of Western Australia's most mysterious birds is about to give up some of its secrets.

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A cockatoo on the brink of extinction

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) family group. Photo: SandraA BIRD with lifelong fidelity to its mate and a mournful cry is heading towards extinction in Western Australia. If it were allowed to happen, the demise of Carnaby's black cockatoo would echo the "lack of foresight and rank stupidity" that led to the Tasmanian tiger's extinction in 1936, according to former CSIRO wildlife research scientist Denis Saunders.

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Bridgetown man fined over illegal cockatoo shooting

Carnaby's white tailed black cockatoo is a threatened species.A Bridgetown man has been fined $3,000 for shooting eight protected white tailed black cockatoos at his orchard in February last year.

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Cockatoo halts Mandurah mega-development

Carnaby's cockatoo has halted a massive residential development in Mandurah. Photo: Chris ThomsonA proposed Mandurah mega-development will have to get approval from Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett after a government department decided it would affect the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoo.

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