Red Tailed Black Bl........dy Cocketoo (forum)

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Can anybody help me with a way to scare off the red tailed black cockies, i have a macadamia nut tree and these guys have found it and last season stripped most of the nuts in 2 days!
Because nobody is home during the day to scare them off its very HARD to stop them. Any advice would be GRATELY APPRECIATED.

Time: 14th January 2012 1:21am

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MaryT says...
No; once they found your tree it's theirs :) They usually prefer seeds of other natives so perhaps grow some of those? They're actually threatened and endangered on the east side of this country.

Time: 14th January 2012 6:53am

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john says...
Not the same animal MaryT. Ours is the Glossy Black Cockatoo.

Time: 14th January 2012 8:22am

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Mike says...
Sydney has glossies, yellow tails and a few gang gangs but Perth has red tails,white tails and long billed blacks.The red tailed blacks up here can be in flocks of 100's and swarm on newly planted corn and peanuts eating the seeds in places like Atherton and Lakeland downs.Here they are like magpies and crows and mostly avoid the wet tropics that they surround.All deterrence attempts have failed locally and perhaps like the sulphur crested visitors I have, only netting stops them.

Time: 14th January 2012 8:39am

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MaryT says...
Thanks Mike... "a few gang gangs..." that's why my heart skipped a bit when I saw a pair of them in the mountains and my friends in WA hate their black cockatoos.

Time: 14th January 2012 10:15am

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Mike says...
The red tailed blacks in perth are the same ones as NEQ and they very common.I made a lame scarecrow and put a plastic hawk out and the sulphur crested cockatoos are stll laughing about it.Do you want canna arrowroot and wi arrowroot as well as then ginger varieties and shallots.You might have to expand or trade them if they all grow.

Time: 14th January 2012 10:25am

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MaryT says...
Very funny; Mike. Cockatoos are clever birds; they live long enough to learn. Just looked up growing notes for arrowroot - I don't think I have space for them, but thanks.

Time: 14th January 2012 2:12pm

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Jason says...
I have quite a few of those gang gang parrots around my house at times, they are noisy little buggers, especially if you have a group of 10-20 of them going silly late in the afternoon. I haven't seen a red tailed cockatoo in years but there's still a few yellow tailed ones around. But I agree once any kind of parrot has learned where a tree is and how to eat the crop, you are done for, they live for so long that they will still be eating your macadamias after you are in the ground. The only way forward is with nets and macadamias are a pretty big tree

Time: 14th January 2012 3:55pm

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Jantina says...
We have great flocks of yellow tailed black cockatoos that come around twice a day about autumn break time. Luckily their interest is in the pine nuts from the pine trees we are surrounded with. Looks like we could be in trouble if they ever find our walnuts, pecans,almonds , hazelnuts etc etc. At the moment I'm always delighted to see them.

Time: 15th January 2012 1:03pm

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