Find out about a beautiful and endangered cockatoo. This episode is about cockatoos and how scientists and community are working together to protect the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-cockatoo.
Richard Hill is a conservation biologist who works on threatened birds and mammals. He shifted to Casterton with his family to study the region's endangered Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, and he's never looked back. Richard’s work involves understanding and mitigating key threats to the south-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo and Brolga, as well as working on a number of threatened small and medium-sized mammals.
Links:
* Red-tailed Black-cockatoo Recovery Project - www.redtail.com.au
* South eastern Red tailed Black Cockatoo Recovery Project on Facebook - @SERTBCRecoveryProject
* SWIFFT - Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo - www.swifft.net.au/cb_pages/sp_red-tailed_black-cockatoo
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* Website - weekendbirder.com
* Instagram - @weekend.birder
* Facebook - @weekend.birder
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