Entries in Calyptorhynchus latirostris - Carnaby's Cockatoo (98)
United front continues for Carnaby's fight
WESTERN 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.
Carnaby’s food of choice: non-native pines
Protected birds drive grower nuts
A Gingin orchardist is being driven nuts by flocks of protected Carnaby's black cockatoos that are taking a devastating toll on his macadamia and pecan trees - but he does not blame the birds.
Amos Machlin blames land clearing for the problem that cost him the entire crop from his 400 macadamia trees last year and a third of the crop from his 900 pecan trees.
The 86-year-old has invested in everything from high-pitched sonar to radar, gas cannons and sound recordings of birds in distress to protect his trees, which are too tall for netting, but nothing has worked.
WA Carnaby cockatoos under threat from diminishing habitat
Noisy, unique and endangered, the Canaby cockatoo, unique to South West WA is under threat from diminishing habitats. The Gnangara pine plantation harvesting program is taking away the remaining haven for the birds but the State Government has yet to provide an alternative habitat.