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Carnaby's cockatoo's best breeding season on record is credited to perfect artificial breeding hollows.
Decades of land clearing across the state's south-west had put the Carnaby's black cockatoo at grave risk of becoming extinct, with their traditional breeding ground wiped out.
But researchers have discovered durable plastic breeding hollows placed high up in trees across the region had encouraged breeding, and they have the data to prove it.
Rick Dawson has studied Carnaby's at the Coomallo Creek nature reserve, 200 kilometres north of Perth, for two decades.
There were 41 breeding attempts reported at the open-air research site in 2009 — but in the past year, a record 138 nests were observed.
Carnaby's cockatoo's best breeding season on record is credited to perfect artificial breeding hollows.
Decades of land clearing across the state's south-west had put the Carnaby's black cockatoo at grave risk of becoming extinct, with their traditional breeding ground wiped out.
But researchers have discovered durable plastic breeding hollows placed high up in trees across the region had encouraged breeding, and they have the data to prove it.
Rick Dawson has studied Carnaby's at the Coomallo Creek nature reserve, 200 kilometres north of Perth, for two decades.
There were 41 breeding attempts reported at the open-air research site in 2009 — but in the past year, a record 138 nests were observed.
