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BirdLife Australia and the Recovery Team are once again looking for volunteers to assist with the 2024 annual count for the nationally endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
This year the count will be held on Saturday 4 May across the cockatoo’s range in the South East of South Australia and South-west Victoria.
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Image: Luke LeddyAfter having to adapt last year’s annual Red-tail count to a backyard counting event due to Covid-19, the Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are happy the regional Annual Cocky Count can return in 2021 and are seeking volunteers to assist.
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Jonathan TuckTrees For Life is offering landholders the opportunity to plant new paddock trees and protect existing trees across the south-east of South Australia.
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Image: Geoffrey DabbThe Communities helping Cockies project has funding to help South East landowners to plant trees and protect habitat for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Image: Bob McPhersonThe Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are again calling on landholders and members of the public to help locate new nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SERTBC).
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Image: Rob DrummondThis year BirdLife Australia and the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team held a local ‘Look to the Skies’ monitoring event on Saturday 2 May to try and count as many cockies as possible.
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Image: Chris FarrellIt is with great sadness that BirdLife Australia and the Recovery Team announce that the Annual Cocky Count for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, planned to be held on Saturday 2 May, will not be proceeding as usual this year due to COVID-19 safety measures.
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Image: Bob McPhersonThe Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are calling on landholders and members of the public to report all sightings and nest activity of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Image Michael WatersMore than 170 volunteers took part in the annual count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo held on Saturday 4 May in stringybark forest across the range of the cockatoo in the South East of South Australia and South West Victoria.
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Image: Bob McPhersonThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are again seeking volunteers for the 2019 Annual Count for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. This year the 2019 Annual Count will be conducted on Saturday 4th May
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Image: Bob McPhersonBirdLife Australia and the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team are once again seeking the public’s support to help find flocks and nests of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SERTBC). More -
Image Rick DawsonMore than 175 volunteers participated in the annual count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo back on 5 May across the cockatoo’s range in the South East of South Australia and South West Victoria. More -
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The Kowree Farm Tree Group are progressing a landholder conservation network for those who own and/or manage land for conservation. An information day is planned on the Sunday 6 May following the annual count.More -
Photo: Rick DawsonBirdLife Australia and the Recovery Team are looking for volunteers to assist with the 2018 annual count for the nationally endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
This year the count will be held on Saturday 5 May across the cockatoo’s range in the South East of South Australia and South-west Victoria.
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Camila De GregorioEggpicnic is a design studio set up by two Sydney based artists who create fine art bird & animal prints and toys. Their artwork features our very own Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. A small percentage of the profit made from sales of this print goes to support the work done by BirdLife Australia. Please read on to learn more about Eggpicnic and their love for birds and Red-tails. More -
Photo: Mike SvernsThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are urging anyone who sees Red-tails across their range in the South-East of South Australia and South West Victoria to report their sightings to the Project Coordinator as soon as possible.
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Bob McPhersonThe South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are calling on landholders and members of the public to report all sightings and nest activity of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
Photo: David AdamCurrent regulations require a specialist permit to keep Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos. This is because of the five sub-species of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo that occur across Australia, two of these, including our very own South-eastern sub-species, are nationally threatened.
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Geoffrey DabbAs regular Red-tail news readers will know, seeds from the nuts or seed capsules of two stringybark eucalypts, Brown Stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri) and Desert Stringybark (Eucalyptus arenacea) are the main year-round food of our Red-tails. More -
Mike SvernsThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are seeking volunteers to assist with the 2017 annual count for Red-tails, which will be held on Saturday 6 May. More -
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Bronwyn PerrymanThe Red-tail Recovery Project will again be attending the South East Field Days, which will be held in Lucindale 17 -18 March 2017.
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Kerry GilkesLucindale Area School 4/5 class started their stringybark project in 2015 when they collected stringybark nuts and dried them in brown paper bags on their window sill at school. More -
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Doug PhillipsGreening Australia supported by the Australian Government through the National Landcare Programme have rolled out a major revegetation effort this year in two geographic areas on public land managed by the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP). More -
Photo credit: Bob McPhersonThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are urging the public to report all nests of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
The SERTBC Recovery Team was very saddened to hear of the passing of our long-term Red-tail Volunteer and number one supporter Dick Cooper on Sunday 8 May. More -
Luke LeddyThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are seeking further sightings of flocks of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo over July this year. More -
Over the weekend the Casterton Scout group were treated to a talk and walk for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
Photo credit: Mike SvernsMore than 150 volunteers helped celebrate 20 years of counting cockies as part of this year’s annual count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, which was held last month on Saturday 7 May. More -
Michael WatersThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are again seeking volunteers to assist with the 2016 annual count for the endangered SE Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, which will be held on Saturday 7 May. More -
Bob McPhersonThe Recovery Team has received amazing new video footage of a female South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo feeding its chick at a nest site in Drajurk State Forest (near Casterton), thanks to avid wildlife photographer Bob McPherson.
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Tim BurnardThe Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are again urging the public to report all sightings of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in preparation for the 2016 annual count, which will be held on Saturday 7 May. More -
Bob McPhersonThe Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia are again calling on the public to help locate new nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SERTBC). More -
Photo thanks to Toni Domaschenz from the West Wimmera AdvocateThe Red Tail Art Gallery and the Kowree Farm Tree Group are thrilled with the success of last month’s Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo themed Art Exhibition. The Gallery received around 50 entries from paintings, photographs, sculptures, carvings, films, quilt-work to various forms of kid’s craft. More -
Aspley Primary School students learning about Red-tails. Photo: Tanya TurnerOver the last month the Kowree Farm Tree Group has been working with local schools to propagate stringybark for the nationally endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, as part of the new ‘Kids creating habitat for Cockies’ project.
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Geoffery DabbThe Australian Geographic Society has helped to raise just over $12000 cash for recovery efforts for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. Photo: Geoffery Dabb
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Bob McPhersonIncentive payments are again being offered for the discovery of new nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
Since January 2011 the Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia have been working in partnership with Zoos SA (Royal Zoological Society of South Australia) to manage and improve habitat conditions and build community capacity and support for the conservation and recovery of the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SERTBC). More -
The Red Tail Art Gallery in conjunction with the Kowree Farm Tree Group are seeking exhibits for a ‘Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo’ themed Art Exhibition. More -
Female SERTBC photographed on the day by volunteer Mike SvernsMore than 135 volunteers participating in the range-wide search for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo have helped to locate over 1500 birds in stringybark country across the South-east of South Australia and South-West Victoria.
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Photo Rachel FarranThe 2015 annual count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo is fast approaching, with the count to be held on Saturday 2 May.
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For the months of March and April Australian Geographic are raising some much needed funds for threatened Black-Cockatoos across the country, including our very own South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
Scattered Paddock stringybarkInterested in creating more food for Red-tails, but can’t afford to fence off large areas to do so? Then the factsheet ‘Paddock tree plantings to help Red-tails’ may be for you. More -
A new brief covering the impacts of burning on the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SERTBC) has been prepared and is available for download by clicking here. The brief provides an overview of the current situation facing the SERTBC as a result of increased burning of key stringybark habitats across Victoria.
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Chris Humfrys, a wildlife expert and television celebrity, will be coming to Henley in 2015 to share his amazing hand-reared wildlife collection. Chris, who owns his own zoo, is so passionate about Australia’s wildlife that the ABC3 have a television show ‘Chris Humfreys wildlife’ all about his crazy family life.
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Stringybark seedlings grown by Portland North Primary School Students. Picture Mel HoltzLast week students from Portland North Primary School participated in an in-classroom seed collection activity to collect seed for a school revegetation project for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Australia’s birds are delightful—whether they’re gliding through the sky, splashing around in a birdbath, or whistling a song outside your window in the early morning, their beauty is inspiring and their antics truly charming. And with the 2015 BirdLife Australia wall calendar now available you can enjoy them in your home all year long.
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A 'new-look' website for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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The south-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo is one of the region’s most iconic endangered bird species. Covering a range of around 18,000km2 from Nelson to Little Desert National Park in South West Victoria and from Mount Gambier to Keith in South Australia, the cockatoo has captured the attention and heart of many local communities, paving its way as one of the most well-known flagship species in the region. More -
Incentives are again been offered to landholders and members of the public for the discovery of new nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. More -
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Back on the 26th of March this year I had the absolute pleasure to talk about our endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoos to some very enthusiastic students from Dimboola Primary School, which is located in the Wimmera between Nhill and Horsham in Victoria.
Year 3 students from Dimboola Primary School thoroughly enjoyed learning all about the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Photo: Bob McPhersonDespite over a thousand endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos having been reported in BirdLife’s Australia’s and the Recovery Team’s annual cocky count earlier this month, the total number of birds recorded is down on previous years.
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BirdLife Australia and the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team are urging the public to get involved in this year’s annual count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, which will be held on Saturday 3 May 2014.
Photo: Steve Bourne
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The South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project will again be attending the 36th Annual South East Field Days at Yakka Park, Lucindale on the 21 & 22 March 2014.
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With another new year comes the chance to get involved in the upcoming annual count for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. This year the count will be held on Saturday 3 May across the cockatoo’s range in the South East of South Australia and South-west Victoria.
Pair of SE Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos. Photo Bob McPherson.
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Australian Designer Patrick McMurray supports recovery efforts through the design and sale of a luxury silk tie featuring the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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On behalf of the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team I would like to wish all our volunteers, project partners and supporters a very Merry Christmas and safe and enjoyable New Year. We look forward to your support in 2014.
Kind regards, Bronwyn
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Just over two weeks ago seventy six students from Tenison Woods College in Mount Gambier spent a good part of the morning potting over 1500 tubes as part of the school’s latest project to help re-create habitat for one of the region’s most endangered birds, the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Year 3 Tenison Woods College students planting stringybark seeds for Red-tails.
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The Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia have secured more funds to extend the 'Kids helping Cockies' Project over 2013-14. This will see a continuation of our work with local schools to grow stringybark for Red-tails.
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Tenison Woods College Studens planting stringybark seed.
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This weekend (9th and 10th November) the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project will have a small display as part of the St Mary’s Open Garden Weekend.
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BirdLife Australia and the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team are again urging landholders and members of the public to report any information on the location of new nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
Female and chick at entrance of nest hollow. Photo Bob McPherson.
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On behalf of the South-eastern Red-tailed Recovery Team and BirdLife Australia we would like to sincerely thank Reidy Park Primary School and Oakvale Farm and Fauna World for their generous donations towards the South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Recovery Project.
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The South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Program relies heavily on the support and ongoing assistance of our volunteers, who continue to play a key role in the delivery of recovery activities for the cockatoo. We have established a huge observer network over many years and developed strong ties with local supporters who frequently assist with collecting and recording field data and observations as part of the program.
To honour and acknowledge all their hard work, love and dedication in helping the plight of this colourful cockatoo, in each edition of Red-tail News we will introduce some of our most dedicated volunteers, starting with one of the longest serving, Mr Dick Cooper.
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Have you seen any Red-tails lately? The Red-tail Recovery Team is always keen to hear of sightings of Red-tails, no matter how big or small they might be, across their range in south-eastern SA and south-western Victoria.
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Over the last four months, Project Staff from the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Program have been on the road visiting students at a number of South East SA Schools to talk about the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, as part of the ‘Kids helping Cockies helping Cockies Project’.
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Lucindale Area School has been successful in receiving a $2000 South East Natural Resource Management Board (SENRMB) Grant to establish a school nursery to grow stringybarks for Red-tails, all thanks to the ‘Kids helping Cockies’ project.
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Since early May, Tim Burnard has been kept very busy roaming the Red-tail range to underake this year's flock counts. Read on to find out the results...
Male tail feather (left) and female/juvenile barred-tail feather (right).
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More than 130 volunteers participated on Saturday 4 May as part of the 2013 Annual Count for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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The 2013 South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Annual Count will be held next Saturday 4 May 2013. There are several sites still available so please REGISTER NOW to secure a spot.
Photo: Melanie Plummer
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Have you seen a Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo lately? If so, the Recovery Team wants to hear about it!
Photo: Bob McPherson 2012
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Two annual count training sessions to be held in Casterton and Struan, Saturday 4th May 2013.
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Photo: Bob McPherson 2012
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BirdLife Australia and the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team are thrilled to offer our readers the chance to win one of four beautifully crafted Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Commemorative Coins, all thanks to The Perth Mint, as part of our Red-tail Art and Story Competition.
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The date for the 2013 South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Annual Count is set for Saturday 4th May. Volunteers of all ages are encouraged to grab out their binoculars, jump in their 4WD’s and join in the fun to search for one of the region's most endangered local's, the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
Photo: Bob McPherson
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The charismatic Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo is the first of five species of Australian Birds to feature in a new series of commemorative coins produced by The Perth Mint.
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Seven nests of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo have been found on a landholder’s property in south-western Victoria. Of the seven nests found, four have been confirmed as new (previously unknown) nest sites of the cockatoo, and so are able to be claimed under the Red-tail Nest Incentive Scheme for 2012-13.
Female South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo at nest site. Photo Bob McPherson.
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Students from Tenison Woods College in Mount Gambier have been involved in a small-scale habitat propagation project to grow food trees for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Ever wanted to meet the famous Commonwealth Games icon, Karak? Well, here’s your chance at this year's 150th Edenhope Show.
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From the 21st-31st October, the Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre is holding an online auction on a variety of items to raise much needed funds for the centre’s continuing work with Western Australian’s Black Cockatoos.
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Earlier this year the Department of Water, Environment and Natural Resources SA (DEWNR) (formerly DENR) developed an ecological fire management strategy (EFMS) for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in South Australia. This strategy, which focuses on identifying fire management considerations and procedures when burning in Red-tail habitat within SA, is just one of a series of EFMS developed by DEWNR for a number of threatened or pest species in which fire is considered a threat or management tool.
Lighting up as part of a prescribed burn in Rennick State Forest.
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BirdLife Australia and the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team are once again offering a reward to landholders and members of the public for the discovery of ‘new’ nest sites of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, as part of the Red-tail Nest Incentive Scheme for 2012-13.
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The South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SeRtBC) National Recovery Plan (2007-12) is currently due for revision. Over the last few months Tim Burnard and Rachel Pritchard from the SeRtBC Recovery Team have been working frantically to develop and prepare the new Draft Recovery Plan (2012-17) for the species, which is now available for comment from all interested parties and stakeholders. Please read on to find out how you can provide comment.
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CVA are continuing their good work with the Red-tails. This group from Taiwan and South Korea have braved the cold weather to pull weeds and plant stringybarks over 10Ha of private land near Casterton Victoria.
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BirdLife Australia today released the results of the 2012 count of the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, saying it was the ‘best year’ since the count started.
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Conservation Volunteers Australia workers have been working in the Bahgallah area, near Casterton over the past week.
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Have you seen any Red Tails?
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The Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo annual count is fast approaching and the Recovery Team need to know where the birds are.
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The Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority is a major financial contributor to our Recovery Team and has extended that support by attending a field trip to raise awareness of Red-tail needs.
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Zoos SA recently announced their continued support of the Red-tails with Caring for Our Country funding that will continue the planting stringybarks in the Lucindale/ Naracoorte area.
Vicki-Jo Russell with Jimmy the Red-tail, at Adelaide Zoo
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Yet another group from Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) have been out working to help the Red-tails. This time it was with fencing and seedling propagation.
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It’s very early in the season but there have already been a couple of sightings of Red-tails in Buloke. Normally we might expect the Red-tails to turn up in the Buloke around March but there were sightings from two weeks ago of Red-tails investigating Buloke in the Bringalbert area and then last week they were seen actually feeding just a bit further west near Benayeo.
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The Recovery Team has announced that this years annual count will be held on Saturday 5th May. The Annual Count is easy to get involved with. Simply register your interest and we send you the information needed including instructions, a map of your search area and a reporting sheet.
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To register, phone 1800 262 062 or email rtbc@birdsaustralia.com.au
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Kalangadoo Primary School has just completed renovations to the school greenhouse so they can grow stringybark seedlings for the Red-tails. The school has been using a grant from South Australian NRM Community Grants program to renovate the old greenhouse including new stands at a comfortable height for the students to plant and maintain seedlings.
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Edenhope College is the latest to install a Red-tail information Board. The Recovery Team is gradually replacing the old signs.
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Conservation Volunteers Australia has continued to support the Red-tails by planting thousands of trees at the Casterton water treatment works this week.
Team leader Tom with international volunteers Sandra, Pauline and Victoria.
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The first Red-tail nest for this breeding season has been found and the landholder is eligible for the $500 payment for a new nest site.
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The Red-tail banners have been getting about the place over the past couple of weeks. First at Wimmera Biodiversity Day then to Mt Gambier Library and then at the Naracoorte Caves 'Threatened Species Day'. Follow the link below to see the pictures
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On Friday 5th September, Minister for Environment and Conservation Paul Caica announced a grant of $30,000 for Birds Australia to support community activities aimed at protecting the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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The Kalangadoo Primary School has continued helping the Red-tails with a tree planting day near Lucindale. Most of the trees planted were stringybarks (Red-tail food) with a sprinkling of other plants normally found in stringybark forests. See the photos...
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Casterton Primary School has just installed a replacement for their old worn out Red-tail information board. The old signs were made of steel with a sticker attached and were prone to fade and easily scratched, but the new signs are printed on hard wearing plastic and constructred of recycled materials. This makes them longer lasting and better for the environment. See the photos..
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This year’s Annual Count has helped us identify a lot of new information – including the location of the larger flocks so they could be flock-counted.
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The Recovery Team has launched a new scheme to reward landholders for discovery of ‘new’ Red-tail nest sites, with a grant from the Nature Foundation of South Australia. The new scheme kicked off on June 1st 2011 and will extend to March 31st 2012.
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The Recovery Team have just uploaded two new publications to our Media page (under fact sheets). Guidelines to growing buloke, tells you everything needed to get this hard to grow plant going.'10 amazing things about Red-tails' is a very interesting 16 page booklet with facts you may never have heard before.
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A big thank you to all 160 volunteers taking part in the Annual Count held on Saturday May 7th. Conditions on the day were good but rains earlier in the year made many of the tracks impassable.
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Final numbers are now in and it looks as if another low count will be recorded for the third year in a row. While the result of 837 is slightly more than previous years, it doesn’t come close to the 2008 result of 1404 birds. -
This year the SeRtBC Recovery Team will also be holding an annual count training session on Saturday 30th April 2011 in Casterton, Victoria for anyone interested to learn more about how to correctly identify the birds both visually and vocally, and what is required on the day.
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The date for the 2011 South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Annual Count is set for Saturday 7th May 2011. Volunteers are encouraged to grab out their binoculars, jump in their 4WD’s and join in the fun to search for one of the region's most colourful local's, the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
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Five functioning Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo nests have been found in winter whilst undertaking maintenance of artificial nest boxes north of Dergholm.
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The Recovery Team has prepared a new and exciting poster for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
