Carnaby’s Cockatoos

Carnaby’s black cockatoo numbers ‘increase dramatically’ with artificial hollows

Artificial nesting hollows are helping revive the numbers of the critically endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoo, after it lost part of its breeding heartland to bushfire in Western Australia.
Carnaby's Cockatoo sitting on top of a Landcare SJ Cockatube ( artificial hollow)

Landcare SJ Cockatubes helping to save Carnaby’s Cockatoos

101 Cockatubes have been installed across WA by the Department of parks and Wildlife. These artificial nesting hollows have been designed and built by Landcare SJ and volunteers.  
Carnaby's Cockatoo nestling approximately 7 weeks old in atrificial hollow

Cockatubes Support Cockatoos in Great Southern

One hundred artificial nesting hollows will be installed in trees in the Great Southern
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