![]() ![]() I have seen Gang Gangs, Glossy Blacks and White-tailed blacks in the wild in my extended local area and my husband's uncle kept a beautiful pair in his massive aviary until he died (they were bequeathed to a private collector who had an equally brilliant set-up for them). Thankfully, most of the birds recovered and the crooks got hefty sentences. Just a few years ago, someone was caught with over a hundred and fifty native parrots which had been drugged and forced into cardboard tubes for storage in the hold of an aircraft. Now, the only way to get them out is to smuggle them and that's, thankfully, not an easy thing to do any more. Logging activities are responsible for so bl**dy much of our loss of species diversity! I could write a book about it!!!Īnyway, I'm aware that Palm Cockatoos have always been a great curiosity and were exported to some degree in the early part of Australia's nationhood. ![]() They only breed in old-growth eucalypt forest where favourable tree hollows can be found. Like most species, the black cockies' worst enemy is habitat destruction. ![]() That incident prompted an instant clamp down on native bird species and the severity of the laws and punishments have only increased over time. When I was a young birdo, there was an enormous scandal when it was discovered that two of our leading ornithologists, while 'studying' the rare cockatoos (and other species, like the Rufous Owl) had actually been robbing nests for years and selling the eggs overseas. the Palm cockatoo in far northern Queensland, the Glossy Black in wet sclerophyll forests, even the Gang Gang tends to live in out-of-the-way bushland areas). Most of the black cockatoos live in remote areas (eg. ![]()
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