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.