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25.01.2022 Some beautiful footage from Blackheath, New South Wales. These birds and others sighted post-fire gives hope for local population recovery.

24.01.2022 The annual Glossy Black Conservacy year-in-review meeting has concluded. The conservancy has gathered together for a 1 1/2 day review every year for the past 10 years (except in 2018 when we were all too busy to meet ;) ). While individual reps come and go, we maintain strong representation from councils from Noosa to the Tweed Coast, and out towards the main range. We also have BirdLife Australia, Griffith University, Mt Barney Lodge, BAAM Ecological Consultants and Healt...hy Land and Water as Partners. This year we welcome Dani from Black-Cockatoo Project to the meeting as a new Friend, and farewell Keith McCosh from Scenic Rim Regional Council who is retiring at the end of the year. The one thing that brings us all together is the desire to conserve the threatened Glossy Black Cockatoo.

24.01.2022 Keen to try out your new glossy ID skills? Still confined to birding at home? Missing this year's annual Glossy Birding Day? Don't despair! There is so much birding fun to be had this weekend and over the coming week, so get involved in one or all of these great events along with our amazing global birding community! PS Don't forget to register any glossy sightings at the Conservancy's website :) https://glossyblack.org.au/ BirdLife Australia's Aussie Backyard Bird Count... https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/ https://fb.me/e/33DlJ1xFa eBird's October Big Day https://ebird.org/news/october-big-day-2020-bigger-than-ever BirdLife International's Big Weekend https://globalbirding.org/

23.01.2022 Scientists are only beginning to count the cost of bushfires on Glossy populations. Read about the likely severe impacts of the recent bushfires to the several hundred Glossies who live on Kangaroo Island. https://ecos.csiro.au/glossy-black-cockatoos/

22.01.2022 The Conservancy is looking for an event coordinator for this year's Glossy Black-Cockatoo Birding Day to be held in October. If you'd like to help make this the biggest and best Birding Day ever, you have until 16 March 2020 to let us know! Enquiries and responses to be submitted by email to [email protected]

16.01.2022 This should be a very special event!

14.01.2022 If you’re in South East Queensland, we need your help! Masters student Alex from UQ is working on a project modelling glossy black-cockatoo feeding habitat in r...esponse to fire over time. This project relies on accurate sightings data records and your input will help play a part in the conservation of this species. If you’re in South East Queensland, make sure you log your glossy sightings data, including the date of the sightings, the location as well as any other details you have recorded. Sightings records can be logged though the Glossy Black Conservancy at: https://glossyblack.org.au/sightings/ or through Birdlife’s Birdata: https://birdata.birdlife.org.au/record-survey Thanks everyone!

13.01.2022 Bushfire in the Mt Barney National Park is currently devouring Glossy Black-cockatoo feed tree and nesting hollow habitat. This World Heritage- listed National Park is home to many rare and threatened animal and plant species, not just the Glossy. The fire is predicted to present in the next few days to the property border of Mt Barney Lodge. As part of our firebreak and property protection, we have been raking around the base of known feed trees on the property. The big tree pictured even has recent orts. We hope the firies assist us in preventing fire onto the property.

13.01.2022 The black she-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis) is one of the preferred food trees for Glossy Black-Cockatoo. Did you know black she-oaks are either male or female, and you need both to provide food for Glossies! Thanks Wild BNE for the images and story.

12.01.2022 Are Glossies taking a sea change? We've received reports of Glossies in places they've not been seen for years, including at Scribbly Gum Reserve where Dr Penn Lloyd filmed this beautiful female. https://twitter.com/DrPennLloyd1/status/1254249572194349058

12.01.2022 Fires have destroyed thousands of hectares of Glossy Black-cockatoo habitat throughout much of their range, and potentially all known habitat of the endangered halmaturinus subspecies that only exists on Kangaroo Island. Whilst the mobility of Glossies gives hope that many birds may have escaped the flames, there is concern that the loss of feed trees will have a significant impact on recovery of the subspecies which in recent years has grown from 150 to 400 birds. If you can, please help the KI Glossies by contributing to the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Rescue Fund, visit: https://www.naturefoundation.org.au//kangaroo-island-conse

12.01.2022 Some beautiful stories and images from our friends at Lake Cargelligo Birds, central NSW

11.01.2022 Vote 1 for Glossies!!!

10.01.2022 This feather was found in Eungalla, Qld. (near Mackay). Did you know you can identify alot about the bird that left it with our easy ID factsheet? https://glossyblack.org.au///Glossy-Black-Fact-Sheet-4.pdf.... See if you can tell us details about the bird it came from using this resource.

10.01.2022 Some spectacular photos of Glossies feeding at Walligan, Qld (near Hervey Bay)! The dexterity (and patience) need to turn those she-oak cones and delicately extricate the seeds is amazing!! Thanks Andrew Muscat-Clark! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218064314982319&id=1320265615

09.01.2022 Sightings of Glossies where they're not usually seen are continuing. This story from inland NSW correlates with what seems to have been happening in coastal areas of NSW and Queensland. Where are you seeing Glossies? Please record all sightings of birds and feed trees in our online database, this will help us to piece together the story of how Glossies are responding to drought and fire. https://glossyblack.org.au/submit-sighting/

09.01.2022 A lone(ly?) male feeding on C. equisetifolia on St Helena Island last Saturday.

08.01.2022 C'mon team Glossy!!! We've 2000 followers that still need to vote in the ANiMOZ Widlife Vote 2020 by 31 August!! This is our chance to put Glossies on the community radar and help conserve these beautiful, gentle birds and their habitats. ... Who's with us?! South-East Queensland Birders Byron Bird Buddies BirdLife Southern Queensland Birds Queensland Mount Barney Lodge

08.01.2022 Some of the Glossy Black Conservancy members dropped in on their Sunday afternoon before the year-in-review meeting to experience abseiling with the Outdoor Leaders at Mt Barney Lodge. So this is what a birdeye view of the Mt Barney National Park looks like!!

07.01.2022 I'll be back!!! In The Guardian Australia article shared last week, John Stanton says of Glossies that they "have a little mind map of feed trees, and once they’ve found one, they’ll keep coming back to it year after year". Do your Glossies visit same time, same place each year? Are your orts multiple shades of brown and grey?

07.01.2022 Kangaroo Island love birds! Surviving the fire and raising a chick! Guardian Australia

05.01.2022 Some uplifting news from Kangaroo Island!! https://www.abc.net.au//glossy-black-cockatoos-on/12285656

05.01.2022 Have a very glossy Christmas!! Photo: PetarB Photography

02.01.2022 You know Glossy Black-Cockatoos feed only on the seeds of a few she-oak species (Casuarina and Allocasuarina species)? And that they are very selective with respect to which trees and which seed-cones they feed on? And that they show strong fidelity to particular trees? ... And that she-oaks take around 5 years to start producing seed-cones? So it will be tough for Glossies living in areas devastated by fire to survive. Fortunately, the wildfires have occurred outside of the nesting season (March-September), so there's no loss of hollow-dependent young, though reduced food availability and loss of nest trees will impact future breeding and population recovery. What are Glossies doing at your place and the places you love?

02.01.2022 Don't forget to vote for Glossies!!