Raise awareness in your local community by spreading the word about the Glossy Black-Cockatoo amongst friends and getting them involved as well. Reporting each and every sighting of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo using our online reporting system to ensure that we are able to build up a comprehensive database on the timing, frequency and ongoing use of certain habitats. These include participating in regional Birding Days, undertaking regular monitoring of sites known to be frequented by the birds. There are a number of ways that members of the public can become involved in conservation efforts to save the Glossy Black-Cockatoo. Having said that, there are a number of guidelines for nest boxes in published books (see “Nest boxes for wildlife, a practical guide” by Alan and Stacey Franks). Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Galah) using the nest box instead of Glossy Black-Cockatoo? Is the nest box to be erected in an areas where Glossy Black-Cockatoo have previously been known to nest but now cannot since natural hollow-bearing trees have been removed? These are just a number of factors to bear in mind when considering whether to erect nest boxes (not just for Glossy Black-Cockatoo) but for many other species as well. For example, how many natural hollows are available in nearby woodlands? Can the nest box be erected where this will be accessible to enable regular monitoring to see which species might use it? What are the chances of other more common species (e.g. However, the use of nest boxes cannot be done indiscriminantly and careful thought needs to be given to a number of issues. Nest boxes are used to improve the performance of Glossy Black-Cockatoo in other areas of Australia (e.g. Alternatively send us a photo of the bird via email and we can verify the record from this. If you would like to assist us in this ‘verification’ process please feel free to include more specific detail in your submission about why you feel your sighting was a Glossy Black-Cockatoo (and not one of the other black-cockatoo, or some other confusing ‘black’ bird). Of course if you are a regular observer and we know that the cockatoo you are reporting are dinkum Glossy Black-Cocaktoo we will verify your reports without making contact with you (unless of course we want more specific details). We are looking at improving on this in the near future and hope that we will be able to have a system in place that enables us to liaise directly with our cockatoo observers. We have been overwhelmed with the success of the reporting tool and have received over 300 records in the past 10 months alone. At this point in time it is not possible for the Conservancy to contact each and every person who submits records via the website as they do not currently have the capacity to do so.
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