Revegetation for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo in the region

Planting for Carnaby’s! updated regularly. For more information, visit our website www.birdlife.org.au/carnabys/plants-for-carnabys,including You can help provide habitat for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo by recommended for Perth and NIASA-accredited nurseries to making specific choices of plants for your revegetation projects. buy them from, plus a list of native species suitable for Carnaby’s Certain plants will also support Baudin’s and Forest Red-Tailed Black- across WA. You can also call our staff to discuss your particular site. Cockatoos, depending on your location in the Perth region. For a comprehensive list of plants used by Carnaby’s across WA, visit Key native plants for Carnaby’s food include and , DEC’s Plants for Carnaby’s Search Tool website at as well as trees such as Marri and Jarrah. Trees also provide roosting www.dec.wa.gov.au/plantsforcarnabys, where you can download the habitat, as well as nesting hollows in some locations. full list or use the tool to develop a species list for your area. woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP) provide critical foraging Note this list includes weedy natives and non-native species, so be habitat in the Carnaby’s non-breeding range, while the Jarrah forests sure to plant only WA local native plants at your site. of the Perth Hills provide year-round habitat for feeding and occasional breeding. Buying plants and Phytophthora dieback

It’s important to carefully consider where you are planting for Phytophthora dieback has a serious impact on Carnaby’s habitat, Carnaby’s. Over 80% of cockatoos in rehabilitation centres were affecting Banksia woodlands and Jarrah forests. You can help reduce brought in after injuries caused by vehicles. Cockatoos are very the impacts by using good hygiene practices to reduce the spread of large, and it’s difficult for them to fly up from low vegetation or after Phytophthora dieback. Find out more from the Dieback Working feeding on the ground. For this reason, make sure you provide Group at www.dwg.org.au. plenty of room between roads and your plants for cockatoos to fly out safely. Make sure you buy your plants from NIASA-accredited nurseries, free from Phytophthora dieback. Look out for our new cockatoo plant This document includes a table listing some of the most important label in nurseries in early 2013! For more information on NIASA and plant species that have been indentified for Carnaby’s feeding and a list of accredited nurseries, visit roosting in the Perth region. This is a working document and will be www.ngia.com.au/Category?Action=View&Category_id=125

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Breeding habitat and artificial nest hollows  Report nesting sites – it is important that these are protected and monitored during annual surveys. Tell us if you know of Carnaby’s need tree hollows as nests to raise their chicks. They artificial hollows that are being used too, as all breeding sites are typically breed in the wheatbelt, and not on the SCP near Perth. significant! However, they occasionally breed in the Perth Hills, particularly further out on the Darling Range, and have successfully raised chicks  Install an artificial nest hollow, but in the Perth Hills only. in artificial hollows there. We recommend only putting up artificial However, artificial hollows have been used successfully for Forest nesting hollows within the natural breeding range (i.e. not on the Red-Tailed Black-Cockatoos on the SCP around Perth. SCP). For more information on artificial hollows, visit DEC’s Saving Carnaby’s Cockatoo website at www.dec.wa.gov.au/carnabys  Look out for sick and injured cockatoos – report them to the WILDCARE Helpline 24-hour emergency number 9474 9055. Other things you can do to help Carnaby’s For more information, please contact the Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo There’s lots you can do to help Carnaby’s, even if you can’t carry out Recovery Project team on [email protected] or 9287 a large-scale revegetation project. 2204 or visit www.birdlife.org.au/carnabys/plants-for-carnabys

 Report night-time roosting sites – these can be surveyed as part of the Great Cocky Count every April, and throughout the year. Carnaby’s typically roost close to sunset, and often near good This document will be updated regularly. Please water supplies, so keep an eye open for evening drinks! visit our website for more information on recommended plants and NIASA-accredited  Provide a stable water source – cockatoos need water and like to nurseries to buy them from. use bird baths, water troughs, ponds and lakes. You will also attract other birds! If you provide water, make sure it is kept clean to reduce the spread of disease.

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Important plant species for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo revegetation projects & their distribution in the Perth area Swan Coastal Plain Perth Hills Use by other Common name Species name Food plant Roost tree distribution distribution black-cockatoos Slender Banksia Yes No Yes Possible Bull Banksia Yes No Yes (southern) Yes Baudin’s Swamp Banksia Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Firewood Banksia Yes No Yes (northern) Possible Acorn Banksia Yes No Yes (northern) Yes possibly Baudin’s Parrot Bush Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Pingle Yes No No Yes Baudin’s Urchin Dryandra Yes No No Yes Baudin’s Ribbed Yes No Yes (northern) No Honey Bush Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Harsh Hakea Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Narrow-fruited Hakea Yes No No Yes Baudin’s Two-leaf Hakea Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Wavy-leaved Hakea Yes No Possible Yes Baudin’s Variable-leaved Hakea Yes No Yes Yes Baudin’s Lesser Bottlebrush Callistemon phoeniceus Yes No Possible Yes Baudin’s Fuchsia Yes No Possible Yes Jarrah Eucalyptus marginata Yes Yes Yes Yes Baudin’s, Red-tails Marri Corymbia calophylla Yes Yes Yes Yes Baudin’s, Red-tails Dwarf She-oak Allocasuarina humilis Yes Possibly Yes Yes Red-tails Thanks to Teagan Johnston & Tony Kirkby for information on plant species frequently used by black-cockatoos around Perth. Plant distribution information from Naturemap.

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