The Problem
To create a habitat where the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoo and other parrots can feed and nest to help save them from extinction.
To create a habitat where the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoo and other parrots can feed and nest to help save them from extinction.
The Carnaby's Black Cockatoo, a species local to Western Australia, are becoming extinct because of land clearing along the coastal planes where their food supply is. Also farmers are removing the ancient logs that the require to nest in. Chicks are also dying because the father birds can't find enough food locally to feed the chick and its mother. As a school in suburban Perth, we can't do a lot about what is happening in the bush but we can make changes in our local area to help the birds survive. We will watch the video - 'On a Wing and a Prayer' and research feeding and nesting trees of the Carnaby's. We will write to nurseries explaining the plight of the Carnaby's and request donations of feed trees which we will plant around the school. We will contact the local 'Men's Shed and request flat boxes of nesting boxes which we will then build. We will then contact the local Fire Brigade and ask them to put the nest boxes high in the Pine Trees where we have seen the Carnaby's come to feed. Once the boxes are up and the trees planted, we will monitor the nest boxes and do a cockatoo count around the school.