(2) Observing Gang-gangs quarterly during our Muster Count weeks If you are HAVING TROUBLE REGISTERING OR LOGGING IN TO THE SURVEY? – click to check instructions. paper data sheet, which is also available at COG monthly meetings.web-site page, created for COG by Atlas of Living Australia or,.PLEASE REPORT Gang-gangs observed (seen and/or heard) using the: YOU CAN HELP in one or both ways: (1) Observing Gang-gangs throughout the year Quarterly muster – see below “Observing Gang-gangs quarterly during our Muster Count weeks”.Ongoing reporting of Gang-gang sightings – see below “Observing Gang-gangs throughout the year”.See map.įor any queries about the project please email Survey Activities As part of celebrating 50 years of activity in the ACT and region, COG is running a citizen science project to learn more about Gang-gangs within the COG Area of Interest which stretches from Goulburn to Adaminaby and Burrinjuck Dam to Lake Bathurst.

Despite this, little is known about the ecology of the Gang-gang within the ACT region, about its abundance, movements or what affects movement patterns, about its food preferences or seasonal distribution, or the frequency or success of breeding events. It is the logo of COG and of the ACT Parks and Conservation Service. The Gang-gang holds special significance for the Canberra Ornithologist Group (COG) and the ACT. The 2014 project report page can be found here.Īrchival Gang-gang Survey Information below Gang-gang survey project reports and press You can still report Gang-gang sightings for the period up to the end of February, but please don’t report any new sightings to the special survey.Ī big thank you to all those who participated! Results and data will be published in a future edition of COG’s publication Canberra Bird Notes. The survey finished at the end of February 2015. In 2014 bird lovers were invited to submit sightings of Gang-gang Cockatoos over the last year to a special survey using the Atlas of Living Australia. Of interest one site has already been reported for August 2015. The project team will also be contacting original GG survey participants who submitted observations about nesting and breeding behaviour, to invite them to record observations over this breeding season.įor any enquiries please email Note that all locations will remain confidential. If you are unable to access the on-line form for some reason, simply send the details by email to the address below. On these return visits, if there is no activity, please still fill in the form and enter a zero for numbers and add the words ‘This is a zero Gang-gang report’ in the notes section. If possible, regularly return to the site and record any further activity. Please do this by submitting an Incidental Record Form and providing information on the location, number of birds and their activity. Please report sightings of Gang-gangs showing interest in potential nest hollow sites or any other indications of breeding. From these sites only one appears to have produced young, although it is unknown how frequently any of the sites were revisited. An analysis of the survey results has provided 150 records from 50 observers of Gang-gangs hollow inspecting. This is a follow up to last year’s successful GG Survey. The purpose is to obtain further information on the breeding of Gang-gangs within the COG Area of Interest. The GG team (Chris Davey and Kathy Eyles) would like to obtain further details on hollow inspecting during this coming breeding season. Find out more about this, the largest temperate woodlands in the world here.A Gang-gang Cockatoo checks out a possible breeding hollow Their tail bands are a solid scarlet red.īoth Carnaby’s and Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos can be found in the Great western Woodlands. Young males emerge from the nest three months after hatching looking like their mothers but as they mature at about three years of age, their pure black adult feathers emerge. Their tails are like the colours of the sunset from yellow, orange to red. Females’ bodies are covered in black feathers edged in gold while their heads carry yellow spots.

The highly decorative plumage of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo make it a favourite amongst bird watchers. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos are also declining due to urban expansion. This migratory species is declining rapidly due to the loss of around 87% of its woodland breeding habitat and as a result is listed as endangered. This includes the endangered Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo of south-west Western Australia. Six Australian species are predominantly black.

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