Males have the distinctive red head with a crest of feathers. Some features to look for in recognising Gang-gang Cockatoos 'active member of Far South Coast Birdwatchers for many years'). Also, please note your level of experience (e.g. We simply ask that in the comments field you describe what you based your identification on, including how you excluded similar, candidate species.

If you are confident in your identification, please go ahead and add a sighting to iNaturalist.

We recognise, however, that many experienced 'birders' are able to confidently identify a bird based on sight or call alone. Most iNaturalist sightings require a photograph. RECORDING A SIGHTING WITHOUT A PHOTO - FOR EXPERIENCED BIRD WATCHERS If you see Gang-gangs feeding go to the Hungry Parrots project and record what you see there. If you see Gang-gangs near a tree hollow, go to the Gang-gang nesting project on iNaturalist and answer as many questions as you can. You need to be a registered iNaturalist contributor to be able to add to our research. We are also interested in what they are feeding on. Try to photograph the birds - even an image from a distance may be sufficient to confirm the identification. The location, the number of birds (including sex & age - adult/juvenile - if apparent), and their behaviour at the time. We are mapping the distribution of Gang-gang cockatoos, the location and activity around suitable nest hollows and their feeding habits. Help to map these special birds and their habitats by recording sightings anywhere across south-eastern NSW & the ACT It is already listed as vulnerable in NSW. The Gang-gang CockatoO ( Callocephalon fimbriatum) is about to be listed as one of the more threatened species of cockatoo in Australia.

Michael Mulvaney and Stacey Taylor presenting the Gang-gang research Here is the recording of the 2021 Science Week presentation about the findings to date from this Gang-gang nesting research project in ACT. There are different levels and kinds of contribution you can offer, from making observations, putting out motion sensitive cameras and recording what’s in tree hollows, to helping to ID the birds and their feed trees and analysing motion sensitive camera images. We will be gathering information about Gang-gangs that is currently unknown and co-ordinating our research with work undertaken elsewhere across the Cockatoo’s range, so that results in our area can be compared with that of other places and habitat such as burnt/unburnt urban/remote, using data from several different locations. This information will help inform the conservation of this bird and lead to the implementation of action as to how its dramatic decline (around 70% in less than 30 years) may be turned around. We are looking for people who want to find out more about Gang-gangs on the south coast, particularly what they are eating, where they are nesting, the rate of nesting success and how that success is influenced by factors thought to be impacting negatively on the Gang-gang such as brush-tail possum predation, hollow competition from Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and other species, overheating in hollows and flooding of hollows. This project follows and extends successful research carried out in the ACT.

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