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Hi and welcome to the channel. I'm sorry to hear they've declined in your local area :-( but it sounds like there is still some hope in the upper mts. Maybe they can re-colonise the lower blue mts in future years???

Hi and welcome to the channel. The Gang-gangs are a relatively small but nonetheless really cool cockatoo 🙂

Hi and welcome to the channel. Yes this is in Australia. 🙂

Somewhere down under.

Hi and welcome to the channel. I don't give my specific location (as a precaution to keep the local Gang-gangs safe), but I do mention in some of my videos that the morning is very cold etc, frost etc 🙂

Hi and thanks for your suggestion. It's a good idea but I'm a bit limited due to the assertiveness of the bolder birds (Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, Little Corellas, Rainbow Lorikeets, Magpies, Feral Rock Pigeons). I give some other food to divert, distract the bolder birds, and then I stand at my little table and baby-sit the Gang-gangs and make some videos. But thanks for the idea, I would try to do it if I could. I really like the King Parrots but unfortunately they just don't have the assertive personality to compete 🙂

@@eaglesandfrogmouthstv2749 I'm sure you'll figure something out eventually.

Hi and welcome to the channel, I hope you enjoy watching the birds 🙂

Hi JUMALATION1. Umm there are a small number that have physical traits or behaviours that distinguish them, but most of them are a homogenous group. 'Big Red' is a male that puffs up his feathers. 'Special foot' is a female with a damaged foot, she disappeared over summer, presumed deceased. 'Sweetie' is a young female that literally climbs all over me. 'Blondie' was a juvenile male with notable blonde feathers in his crest, but now he has turned into an adult male and I'm not 100% sure who he is(!) 'Mr Painful' perches on the tips of my fingers when eating from my hand. 'Sleepy' is a male with a drooping eyelid. 🙂

@@eaglesandfrogmouthstv2749 How cute that they have nicknames! 🤩

Hi, yes we have 3 baby females for this winter season. By now all the local babies in my small local area would have found our garden by now, so yes, these will be 'repeats' if you will, the same 3 individuals repeatedly visiting our garden on a daily basis. :-)

Thanks everyone for your comments about Mr Baldy Chest, a true 'Aussie battler'. He has been visiting our garden during the warmer months for a number of years, so his resilience is quite remarkable.

Yes he does keep visiting the table. The fungal growth got quite large, bulbous and ugly, but he seems to have scratched it off a few weeks ago, and he's looking much much better now, maybe even 90% better.

@eaglesandfrogmouthstv2749 Oh, good! I'm very glad to hear that he seems to have been recovering. It sounds like there was a rough go of it, for a while. Your feeding table was probably instrumental in giving him the extra energy he needed to heal.

Haha yes the occasional Gang-gang does offer some occasional resistance to the SCCs, with varying degrees of success/failure....

Hi and thanks for your comment. Umm you've raised a new possibility, but I always have a strong suspicion that these are human interventions causing these injuries. I had a wild female Gang-gang in the past who always visited, and she lost some of her toes, but managed to survive, presumably from a suburban garden incident. In contrast to some of the more street-wise and common birds of Australia, Gang-gangs have a pretty strong suspicion of people and garden hazards, so I always find it a bit concerning when I see them damaged like this 😞, not forgetting to mention their endangered status. Thanks for praying for her, I need to do that too.

Hi k.jespersen6145, thanks for your concern, yup my hand is good. I've had 3 on my hand a few times but generally it's uncommon. :-)

Very cute :-)

Yeah the Gang-gang who landed on top of the camera was trying to bite my fingers holding the camera. Usually the Gang-gangs are pretty good but I do get the odd bite from time to time. Every time a new Gang-gang lands on me for the first time it will give my hands an exploratory bite/s to make sure it is safe, these bites can be firm but generally not painful. The attempted bite in this video was because my fingers were grasping the camera so the Gang-gang didn't like the look of it and thus it got annoyed and tried to bite me. (Gang-gangs don't like 'pokey' things, such as pokey fingers, pokey branches, pokey sticks, pokey ears on the human head, anything that disrupts their routine and can be interpreted as a potential threat or just annoying). Sometimes the Gang-gangs on my hands will bite me gently if the food runs out and they are telling me to give them some more. An aggressive bite (which is painful) can be as a self-defence mechanism, when a threat is perceived, or as an act of aggression towards me for some perceived offence. I've had a small collection of 'aggressive bites' and in those instances I verbally express my pain and move my hands away and the offending Gang-gang quickly gets the message that it can't be aggressive towards me. (Being hand-fed is a privilege and not a right!).

​@eaglesandfrogmouthstv2749 😂 Can very much understand the gang-gangs not liking potentially pokey things, but the fact that that includes ears is just a bit funny. What birbs they are. It's nice to know that they respond positively to auditory cues and movement. Some parrots just take pulling away with an "ouch" as a challenge. I wonder if gang-gangs are more socially conscious, that way, or if there's something else at play in their behavior.

So so cute🥰I could watch for hours❤

Hi k.jespersen6145, yeah the landing on the camera shocked me a bit the first time but now I'm starting to get used to it(!)

So so cute and beautiful 🥰🥰❤❤

Hi and thanks for the feedback. I like the camera angle too. The Gang-gangs are a bit sensitive about it, but I might set it up again this way in future...???

@@eaglesandfrogmouthstv2749 whatever is best for the Gang-gangs, regardless of the angle, getting to see these beautiful birds is so lovely !!

Hi k.jespersen6145, thanks for your comment, the skittishness in the first video was a result of me placing the camera on the feeding table. I find that the Gang-gangs are very sensitive to any disruption of their routine and anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. They are used to seeing the camera hanging around my neck and in my hand, but putting it on the table was a step too far for most of them. If I keep persevering they will slowly get used to it on the table, but in many respects I'm happy to just keep filming them by hand. As a further side comment it is interesting to note how sensitive the Gang-gangs are. For example, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are much more bold and boisterous in regards to handling new things, but with wild Gang-gangs, when you do little things that disrupt their routine they don't like it at all..... :-)

Very cute :-)

Hi and welcome to the channel, they are really great birds :-)

Yeah there are one or two 'biters' amongst the local Sulphur-crested Cockatoos that visit our table that I have to keep an eye on, especially for the sneak attack on the feet(!) :-)

Haha thanks, although I'm not a very expressive person I hope in some small way I can share some joy of this experience to my viewers 🙂

Hi and welcome to the channel. I'm sorry I don't share my location, just to give a little bit of protection to the Gang-gangs in my local area. I find that 99% of people, including yourself are trustworthy, but for the other 1% I am a bit more cautious. Thanks for your views and comments :-)

Hehe they have got a pretty good Elvis impersonation going on.... :-)

Hi and good to hear from you. Umm generally speaking I don't pet them, one or two of them don't mind it, but most of them draw a line at physical petting of them. Gang-gangs are well adapted for cooler climates where they need extra warm feathers, so some of their feathers are quite 'downy' and soft. :-)

Thanks and hi :-)

Haha, the creepy crawlies aren't too bad once you get used to them :-)

Yeah they are really great little cockatoos, full of character :-)

Hi k.jespersen6145, you're detailed observations have shown things I havn't seen before, thanks for that :-)