Red-tailed Black Cockatoos

Since 1991, these magnificent birds have been annual visitors to Toowoomba and surrounds in fluctuating numbers and for varying lengths of time. The availability of fruiting White Cedar (Melia azerderach) dictate their local movements but how and to what extent is unclear.

Let's collectively get a better idea on their annual numbers, daily patterns of movement and local distribution. How far east do they venture each year? Do they ever reach Ipswich and Brisbane? Provide the date and time, number of birds, exact location, and what they were doing e.g. feeding in white cedar, roosting, flying east.

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Olive Booth
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Red-tailed Black Cockatoos

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This morning 13th, January, at 5.45 a.m. 25 birds flew over Old College Road, Gatton, going east seen by Elsie Dallinger.
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Mick Atzeni
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Red-tail Black Cockatoos

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Also, Steve Burke and I saw three at UQ Gatton campus (9/1), feeding in a White Cedar near the Gatton-Forest Hill Rd entrance.
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