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Documenting the journey: South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Recovery Program storymap

Dec 23, 2024 A pair of Red-tails near a potential nesting hollow. Credit: Bob McPherson

Over 20 years of work has gone into efforts to understand, protect and restore habitats for our beautiful South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. This work has been beautifully documented in a storymap to show the journey of SeRtBC recovery efforts.

You can visit the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project Storymap here.


Substantial gains have been made in terms of engaging the community in conservation efforts, understanding the key drivers of success for the cockatoo population, measuring habitat productivity, spatially targeting on-ground activities, protecting and restoring feeding habitat and managing threats to recruitment. 

This is the story of these efforts to assist recovery of the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (SeRtBC; Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne), a beautiful, charismatic and much-loved bird found only in south-east South Australia and south-west Victoria.

You can visit the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project Storymap here.

This Story Map was prepared by Paul Koch for the South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Recovery Team and was funded by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board in partnership with project partners and the Australian government.

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