Threatened Black-Cockatoo Monitoring Data

This project aims to develop bioacoustic methods of monitoring breeding in the south-eastern red-tailed black-cockatoo and the glossy black-cockatoo. Breeding success is a key limiting factor in population recovery for these threatened populations. Conservation managers want to target conservation actions to improve breeding outcomes, but currently have little evidence to guide them, due to a lack of monitoring data on breeding success, and how this relates to key habitat variables known to influence breeding (e.g. food supply). These species are difficult to monitor using traditional methods. For breeding to be feasibly monitored in the future, new methods that are accurate, efficient, and have smaller human resource requirements are needed. This project will develop novel bioacoustic methods to monitor breeding in these species. Specifically, our aims are to develop and test bioacoustic methods of monitoring breeding-related vocal behaviours at active nests of threatened black-cockatoos.本项目旨在开发生物声学（bioacoustic）方法，以监测东南部红尾黑凤头鹦鹉与亮黑凤头鹦鹉的繁殖情况。繁殖成功率是这些濒危种群数量恢复的关键限制因素。保护管理者希望针对性实施保护行动以改善繁殖结果，但目前缺乏指导依据——原因在于缺少繁殖成功率的监测数据，以及该成功率与已知影响繁殖的关键栖息地变量（如食物供应）之间的关联数据。传统方法对这些物种的监测难度较大。为实现未来对繁殖情况的可行监测，需开发准确、高效且人力需求较低的新方法。本项目将开发新颖的生物声学方法，用于监测这些物种的繁殖过程。具体而言，我们的目标是开发并测试生物声学方法，以监测濒危黑凤头鹦鹉活跃巢中的繁殖相关发声行为。