Sydney's wing-tagged cockatoos
In collaboration with Dr John Martin, we follow 140 wing-tagged birds in central Sydney, all tagged between 2011-2016. We previously collected observations through the Wingtags app - this has now shifted over to BigCityBirds
This long-term citizen science study allows us to follow them across their (long!) lives. This has led to some fascinating insights. For example, from identifying co-occurances of individuals in citizen science reports, we have found that cockatoos maintain long-term social bonds that become more stable with age (publication here). We have also found that the birds of central Sydney are shifting their activity rhythms to match human activities - timing their visits to balconies to when people are home, and using green spaces as a refuge (publication here).
Our Wing-tagged birds:
001 Columbus
002 Waffles
003 Cockamel (moved to Sutherland)
004 Macadamia
005 Pina Colada
006 AC
007 James Bond (deceased, PFBD)
008 Juanita (deceased, PFBD)
009 Burt
010 Juggler
011 Watermelon (Project ambassador ☺️)
012 Heineken
013 Travis (10 on other wing)
014 JC
015 Hazel
016 Mr Squiggle
017 Legolas (deceased, hit by car)
018 Snow White
019 Freckles
020 Guava
021 Winnie (deceased, PFBD)
022 Jimmy
023 Cockastu
024 Chicken
025 Lawrence
026 Venus
027 Party Boy
028 Fidget
029 Peanut
030 Coco
031 Cockajack
035 Shakespeare
036 Scamps
037 Ol Miss
038 Phoenix
039 Peaches
040 Dancin' Jen
041 Uncle Arthur
042 Archimedes
043 Astroboy
044 Sunny
045 Yoda
046 Qui-Gon
047 Lancelot
048 Heidi
049 Charles
050 Belle
051 Barracuda
052 Xavier
053 Wordsworth
054 Spoc
055 AJ
056 Lemon
057 Lily
058 Phantom
061 Elvis
062 Gidget
063 Clive
065 Ninja
066 Houdini
067 Shadow
068 Dione
069 Stinger
070 Aquarius
071 Ali
074 Foxy
075 Special
076 Humphrey
077 Doepel
078 Monster
079 Sally
080 Mad Max
081 Precious
082 Guildenstern
083 Rozencrantz
084 Marbury
085 Tristan
086 Speck
087 Comic
088 The Wig
089 Falstaff
091 Murphy
092 Booker (deceased, hit by car)
093 Albie
094 Bruce
095 John-Jones
096 Marilyn
097 RatherBeFishin (deceased, brought to vet in 2019)
098
099 Agent99
101 Unicorn
102 Limbo
103 Tobruk
104 Odenkirk
105 Pepper
106 Xena
107 Polly
108 The Brain
109 Pinky
110 Brutus
115 Dido
116 Cleopatra
117 Mack
118 Disco Tech
119 Jasmine
120 Felix
121 Roberta
122 Chelsea
123 Ellanor
124 Batman
125 Girlfriend
126 Max-Planck
127 Humboldt
128 Georgia
129 Jack
130 Lizzy
131 Indianer
132 Stormageddon
133 King Monkey
134 Sunny Boy
135 Hudson
136 Heiko
137 Paxton
138 Attenborough
139 Platypus
140 Genghis Khan
141 CockyKen (moved to Wollongong)
141 Atticus
142 Fossey
143 Bob Brown