Restocking the cockatoo flock

THE biggest flock of rehabilitated Carnaby’s black cockatoos ever released back into the wild in WA were set free in Yanchep National Park last week.

The Department of Environment and Conservation, and volunteers from the Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre returned 28 birds to their natural habitat.

The centre, based in the Perth hills, works with DEC and Perth Zoo specialising in the care of sick, injured and orphaned Carnaby’s and Baudin’s red-tailed and white-tailed black cockatoos.
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