Bird research: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Australian White Ibis

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo research with social media

BREAKING NEWS

Wingtags fundraising campaign is on between 22 April and 5 June 2013.

We are raising funds to engage more members of the community to report their sightings of wing-tagged cockatoos and to conduct GPS satellite tracking of the cockatoos' movements.

Visit www.pozible.com/wingtags for more information and to make a donation.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo research needs your help.

Research is currently under way that involves wing-tagging Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) within the Sydney region. The aim is to monitor cockatoo movements, breeding and habitat preferences.

Report your cockatoo sighting

If you see a wing-tagged cockatoo please report the tag number and colour (e.g. 142-green or 011-yellow) and location in one of four ways:

By email cockatoo.wingtag@gmail.com. An option is to forward us pictures of the tagged cockatoos that you have observed.
Check out cockatoo.wingtag on Facebook!
Report via the free iphone App Wingtags.
Report to the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme (ABBBS).

Cockatoo movements

Cockatoo resightings within the Sydney region. Data presented are for 14 cockatoos based on reports received via the iPhone App, for example icon #3 represents tag 003-yellow (Cockamel).

Cockatoo resightings within the Royal Botanic Garden and surrounds for 11 cockatoos based on reports received via the iPhone App. For example icon #3 represents tag 003-yellow (Cockamel).

For more information listen to interviews about the project

>> Download cockatoo band reporting information sheet

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Photo: Stefanie Veith

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Australian White Ibis research needs your help

Research is currently under way that involves banding and wing-tagging Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) within the Sydney region. The aim is to monitor ibis� movements, breeding and habitat preferences. Colour-banding and numbered wing-tags allow identification of individual ibis; observations have been received from across the Sydney region and as far away as Shepparton (Vic), Coffs Harbour (NSW), Brisbane and Townsville (Qld).

Each ibis is fitted with an individually numbered metal band (e.g. 121-53662). Birds may additionally be fitted with a site-specific colour band or tag (e.g. green or blue band or black tag (see pictures), which allows the banding location of a bird to be easily determined. If an ibis is not wing-tagged it may be banded with two additional colour bands (e.g. pink/pink or yellow/pink) from the eleven colours, this allows easy identification of individual birds without having to read the numbers on the metal band.

Please report all observations of banded white ibis to ibis.sightings@gmail.com wherever they are observed (across Sydney, throughout Australia and as far as Papua New Guinea and the Moluccas Islands). The critical information to report is the tag number and colour or the position of the bands and their colours. An easy way to do this is to note each part of the bird�s leg. For example:

Left Upper (thigh) - Nothing
Left Lower (shin) - Yellow/Pink (top to bottom)
Right Upper - Metal
Right Lower - Green

Report your ibis sighting

By email ibis.sightings@gmail.com
Report to the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme (ABBBS).

Ibis movements: across the Sydney region and across Australia

Movements of ibis across the Sydney region

Movements of ibis from Sydney to regional locations

>> Download ibis band reporting information sheet

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Above and below: Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) with individual colour bands. There are eleven colours (pictured from left to right): red, orange, pink, light blue, blue, pale green, yellow, green, white, black and purple.