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Please help the Gang-Gang Cockatoo

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In March this year the Gang-gang Cockatoo was listed as Endangered. 
Since the 2019-2020 bushfires, they have relied more on searching for food in our gardens.
Please consider helping by purchasing and planting some of the following in your garden. If you don’t have much space, it is best to plant a few plants of the same species rather than a mixture of species. A list of local nurseries is below.

Blue Mountains plant species suitable for Gang-gang Cockatoos

This list was compiled by Carol Probets, based on her observations and analysis of food items recorded in Gang-gang sightings from volunteers including from the Blue Mountains Bird Observers Incorporated.

Species  

Common name  

Food group  

Growth habit  

Height  

Acacia terminalis 

Sunshine Wattle

Wattle 

Shrub  

to 6m 

Acacia melanoxylon 

Blackwood 

Wattle 

Tree  

3-30m 

Callitris muelleri 

Mueller’s Cypress 

Cone/pod 

Shrub  

to 6m 

Eucalyptus piperita 

Sydney Peppermint 

Gum nut or flowers 

Tree  

to 20m 

Eucalyptus punctata 

Grey Gum 

Gum nut or flowers 

Tree 

to 35m 

Eucalyptus radiata 

Narrow-leaved Peppermint 

Gum nut or flowers 

Tree  

to 40m 

Eucalyptus racemosa 

Scribbly Gum 

Gum nut or flowers 

Tree  

to 15m 

Eucalyptus sieberi 

Black Ash, Silvertop Ash 

Gum nut or flowers 

Tree  

to 45m 

Isopogon anemonifolius 

Drumsticks 

Gum nut or flowers 

Shrub  

to 2m 

Hakea dactyloides 

Broad-leaved Hakea 

Cone/pod 

Shrub  

1-3m 

Persoonia levis 

Broad-leaved Geebung

 Berry 

Shrub/tree  

to 5m 

Persoonia linearis 

Narrow-leaved Geebung 

Berry 

Shrub  

2-5m 

Persoonia species 

Geebungs 

Berry 

Shrub 

 

Petrophile pulchella 

Conesticks 

Cone/pod 

Shrub  

to 3m 

 

Local Nurseries


Wildplant Rescue Katoomba  https://www.wildplantrescue.org.au/   is usually open Fridays and Saturdays. Telephone: 61 2 4782 6233
 
Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve is on the Great Western Highway https://www.apsbluemtnsgroup.org/  and is open Wednesdays and Saturdays.
 
The Blue Mountains Conservation Society has a nursery https://www.bluemountains.org.au/nursery.shtml  They are at the Blackheath Growers Market on 2nd Sundays.
 
Most of the commercial nurseries have a plenty of native plants. In the Mid-Upper Mountains this includes:
Webers, Mt Boyce near Blackheath http://www.webersnursery.com.au/  
 
Longview Garden Centre, Wentworth Falls, https://www.longviewgardencentre.com.au/  
 
Dillinger's Nursery, Wentworth Falls
 
Bay Tree Nursery, Clarence https://the-bay-tree-nursery.business.site/   
Killibinbin Native Nursery is at Dargan and is a commercial nursery. https://nurseryindargan.com/  
 
 
This page was taken from the flyer produced by volunteer participants in the Gang-gang Cockatoo Recovery Project, based in the Blue Mountains. You can find out more about this project here: https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/content/article/Join-BirdLifes-Gang-gang-Recovery-Project or scan the QR code below. Further enquiries can be directed to: [email protected] 

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