This month we provide information about the November fieldwork at the Coomallo Creek breeding site (tracking wild adults and fledglings). We also provide information about one of our rehabilitated red-tails, RT 96, who has bonded with a wild female; as well as information about other rehabilitated birds which have accompanied flocks moving to known breeding grounds.
Below is a summary of the innovative double-tag system which we are using to follow the released birds, followed by a summary of our focal birds’ movements for Oct-November 2017. TRANSMITTERS attached to birds:
(1) Satellite transmitters – provide landscape-scale data on movement and location of the birds with accuracy to within 250m. These tags can remain operational for approximately a year, before being shed during the annual moult of the tail feathers to which the tags are attached.
(2) GPS transmitters – provide fine-scale data, including highly-accurate GPS locations, fine-scale movement and behavioural data. This research is the first trial of these GPS tags on free-ranging black
cockatoos.
The latest BCCP report is available to be read, courtesy of the report authors.
