Major Mitchell's cockatoo spotted.

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Gingera
9:04 pm, 21 Dec 11
MERC600 said :

I don’t think they are too scarce. Well not out here in the boonies. Get about 40 odd occasionally sitting on the leccy wire in the backyard.

sure their not galahs’s?? – major mitchells generally don’t come within about 600km’s of the ACT

Ah you are correct. Have just looked them up on the web. What drink out of my old roasting tray in the back yard are not Majours but gallahs. Thank you.

MERC600 said :

I don’t think they are too scarce. Well not out here in the boonies. Get about 40 odd occasionally sitting on the leccy wire in the backyard.

sure their not galahs’s?? – major mitchells generally don’t come within about 600km’s of the ACT

fabforty said :

I’ve never seen one of those but there is a flock of yellow-tailed cockatoos that get around EPIC. Haven’t seen them for a while, though.

Black cockatoos are the best, but they’re just too big for suburbia, I think.

I’ve never seen one of those but there is a flock of yellow-tailed cockatoos that get around EPIC. Haven’t seen them for a while, though.

I don’t think they are too scarce. Well not out here in the boonies. Get about 40 odd occasionally sitting on the leccy wire in the backyard.

oh, maybe not: http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birdGroups/cockatoos.htm

I thought we had a native population of those? Wasn’t there a flock of them in Weston Park?