![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll end with photo and text taken and written by Geoffrey Dabb, which featured in the Canberra Times some years ago…I hope you can read it. ![]() Perhaps as a result of the quiet nature of the Gang-Gang Cockatoo, I got very few photos that day,….so my thanks goes to Julian Robinson for his two lovely photos of the Gang-Gang male and female together….looking very endearing. The Gang-Gang Cockatoo is the faunal emblem of the ACT and it is part of the logo of the Canberra Ornithologists Group and ACT Parks, Conservation and Lands department. I had difficulty finding Gang-gang Cockatoos in the Botanical Gardens, but was told to listen for a sound like a squeaking door, and sure enough, when I listen for that sound, I looked up and saw, through flakes of bark drifting down on me, the red tuft of the male cockatoo…… A young male Gang-Gang cockatoo … In some cases the young Gang-Gangs roost together in the same tree while the parents are foraging for food. They live in monogamous pairs and family groups can be seen together in summer. probably because they can’t get a word in edgeways, if the white Cockatoo is around! Photo by Julian Robinson Canberra Ornithologists Group The description of the Gang-Gang is that they are ”gregarious, but relatively quiet cockatoos”. The adult male has a distinctive scarlet red head and crest, and the female has a dark grey head and chest. Photo by Julian Robinson Canberra Ornithologists Group In Canberra we are lucky enough to have seven varieties of Cockatoos (who knew?) and this cute pair are the male and female Gang-Gang Cockatoo. My first glimpse of a young Gang-Gang Cockatoo (male) at the National Botanical Gardens. So to educate myself about other birds, last spring I joined a group of people surveying the Gang-Gang Cockatoo, here in the National Botanical Gardens. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos are not the only birds in Canberra, but you could be forgiven for thinking so if you are a regular reader of my blog.Īutumn is such a busy time for all birds in Canberra, so there are many photo opportunities, but the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo some how always manages to fly into scenes and photos. ![]()
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