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Gang-gang Cockatoos
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A rare and special up-close encounter with a pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos, the bird emblem of the Australian Capital Territory.
During an early morning walk, a pair of these magnificent birds alighted on a tree in front of me. They allowed me to approach and to observe them as they moved around from branch to branch to feed on the seeds. In fact, they looked more concerned when they heard a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo screech as it passed overhead. The male (with the brilliant red helmet that really stands out against the charcoal grey of the rest of the plumage) moved about in the open, whilst the female (bottom right frame) kept her distance. The pairs apparently mate for life, forming very close bonds. Their life span is not well known, but some species of cockatoo are known to live for 100 years or more!
It was somewhat amusing to see that rather than climb over branches that stood in their way as they moved towards the tips and their source of food, that they would simply strip the offending branch from the tree with their powerful beaks. This behavior is quite common among cockatoos, and a tree can be almost completely stripped of foliage if a flock of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos descends on it. This particular tree was saved from such destruction as the Gang-gang Cockatoos that I have observed tend to travel in just in pairs rather than large flocks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang-gang_Cockatoo
www.ganggangcockatoo.com/
Barton, ACT, Australia.
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2009-08-24 10-24-53 Peewee – IMG_3005
Image by Degilbo on flickr
The Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) is a conspicuous Australian bird of small to medium size, also known as the Mudlark in Victoria and Western Australia, the Murray Magpie in South Australia, and as the Peewee in New South Wales and Queensland. The Magpie-lark was originally described by English ornithologist John Latham in 1802. Like so many Australian birds, it was named for its apparent similarity to the northern hemisphere birds familiar to European settlers. In fact, it is neither a magpie nor a lark and is not particularly closely related to either—though its actual relationship to other birds remains uncertain: it was traditionally placed somewhere in-between the mud nest builders and the currawong family (both of which look rather similar) but, in the light of modern DNA studies, is now grouped with the monarch flycatchers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-lark
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