Checking in on one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo Plantings

Here’s Tracee’s report from one of the Cockatoo planting sites we worked on during our BUPA Healthy Communities project from May – August last year. This particular site was planted out in late May 2025 with Eugowra Catchment Landcare. This planting occured on productive agricultural grazing land in the Conimbla/ Nangar fly-over zone.

“Very excited to have visited one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo plantings from last year and see some fantastic growth. It’s been a dry season and there were quite a few losses but those still surviving are doing so well and the 50 plus surviving Allocasuarina verticillata’s are going to start providing food for the Glossie’s in just a few years.” Mid Lachlan Landcare Coordinator Tracee Burke.

Thanks again to all the wonderful volunteers who came to help plant for these projects. We hope you love seeing the progress of your plants

Fence it off. The landholder undertook all the fencing required for this project to be protected from stock and it is going to be such a great revegetation project into the future.

2. Water is life! Taking the time to give these survivors a drink. They just need a little help due to this extra hot dry season we are experiencing

3. Diversity of Planting. Here we’ve got Allocasuarina vertiillata, Acacia paradoxa (Kangaroo Thorn), Acacia uncinata & Cymbopogan refractus (Barb wire grass).

This is Acacia uncinata and Ash grew this one herself to plant in this section as it’s local but doesn’t seem to be available at the nurseries so much. It’s gorgeous.
Allocasuarina verticillata – Look how big this Glossy Black Cockatoo feed tree is already. We can’t wait until they start producing seed.
They have also intruduced some Barb Wire Grass (Cymbopogan refractus) which is a hardy local grass that is not found in this area so much anymore. A fabulous summer growing grass.
This one is Kangaroo Thorn (Acacia paradoxa) Some people don’t really like this local native but it does provide wonderful habitat for all our little birds, it’s nitrogen fixing and only grows about 2m tall. It’s doing a job in our paddocks to build soil and improve nutrients.