#Gang gang cockatoo for sale victoria full

If anyone wants a better ID I'll put up a cropped shot.ġ0) Straw-necked Ibis - I really love the love in the feathers of this bird, I'm happy with this shotġ1) Wedge-tailed Eagle - I can provide a cropped ID shot if needed but hopefully the classic shape shows you this beautiful bird. Anyway, for day one, I got some shots I was happy with, at least for now.ġ) Australasian Grebe - there was also a beautiful young one but it wasn't as happy to see meĢ) Australasian Swamphen - again there was a cute fluffy baby but it hightailed it awayģ) Australian Wood duck pair - I really like this shot, there's something in their pose that strikes meĤ) Chestnut Teal - this isn't the best photo and I'll probably replace it, but how cute is this little family?ĥ) Eurasian Coot - I swear every water bird in this pond had babies, it was the cutest day out!Ħ) Hardhead - parent and juvenile, not the best photo but you don't see them every dayħ) Common Myna - I will replace this, but I seem to mainly see these when I don't have my camera on me!Ĩ) Magpie-lark - I've found these to be surprisingly evasive when I try to get a photo so I'm taking what I can get for nowĩ) I took the best shot I could into the glary sky of this female Mistletoebird but it took me completely by surprise!! Although they are around I saw them only once or twice last year so this may be my only shot. One side is a clear bank but of course where you can see the birds, they can see you.

#Gang gang cockatoo for sale victoria full

It's basically what it says, a pretty full pond with an overgrown hide and you just have to poke around and find little openings where you can spy birds. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria.So after a very lacklustre New Year's Eve I headed out New Year's Day to check out a new spot that I haven't been to before and it's a little ripper! It's called Petty's Dam, it's in Templestowe in Melbourne and it's located between an old apple orchard (Petty's) where volunteers still grow heritage apples, and bushland. Menkhorst, P., Rogers, D., Clarke, R., Davies, J., Marsack, P., and Franklin, K. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, Volume 4: Parrots to Dollarbird. The species is listed as Vulnerable in New South Wales. Time to independence: Young birds will continue to be fed by the parents for up to 6 weeks once they have fledged.Clutch size: Usually two white eggs, sometimes three.Breeding season: Typically October through to January.Both sexes also share the incubation duties and care for the young. Both sexes will prepare the nest before laying by chewing on the sides of the hollow and use the wood chips and fragments to line the nest. They nest in a hollow in a trunk, or limb, of large eucalypt trees usually near water.

Gang-gang Cockatoos are monogamous and form strong pair-bonds. Communicationīirds will make a contact call that sounds creaky and raspy, a lot like a “rusty hinge”. Eucalypt seeds, insect larvae, berries, nuts, fruits of introduced species Hawthorne and Cotoneaster.