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better as well as much less expensive to strap old dry logs to existing trees and continue to clad the tree. The tinning procedure is now being used by other conservation groups in Australia to assist threatened species at risk of being predated by lizards, feral cats and foxes. Thus Ray and John’s considerations all those years ago have proven to be of great benefit to a wide range of endangered species. The Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo population in southeast Australia continues to grow as a result of the work carried out by Ray Ackroyd under difficult conditions there and the Parrot Society UK will continue to support this important conservation activity. You can make a direct contribution to this through the Parrot Society website.
around the points where the nails were driven through. However the wood of the trees is very hard and it is not easy to fix the tin to the trees. Therefore Ray is now considering using a different type of plastic and using wire fixed top and bottom to tie them to the trees.
He also discovered the park management team at the nearby national park had commenced a trial with large pine nesting logs on concrete poles. However these are expensive and do not appear to appeal to the cockatoos. They seem to prefer smaller nest sites. Ray felt it would be
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