Publications

Publications and reports by staff and students at Murdoch University on black cockatoo health, demographics and ecology can be accessed below. Where copyright permissions have been granted the pdf of the manuscript has been linked below, otherwise a link to the journal website where the manuscript can be accessed or purchased has been provided.

Ecology

The following publications and reports focus on black cockatoo ecology, movement ecology based on GPS and satellite tracking research and the development of the tracking methodology.

Le Souef AT, Bruce M, Barbosa A, Shephard JM, Mawson PR, Dawson R, Saunders DA and Warren KS, 2024, Health parameters for wild Carnaby’s cockatoo (Zanda latirostris) nestlings in Western Australia: results of a long-term study, Conservation Physiology, 12, 10.1093/conphys/coae005

Riley KJ, Warren K, Armstrong N, Yeap L, Dawson R, Mawson PR, Saunders DA, Cooper CE and Shephard JM, 2023, Accelerometry reveals limits to use of an energy-saving anthropogenic food source by a threatened species: A case of Carnaby’s cockatoos (Zanda latirostris) and canola, Ecology and Evolution, 13:e10598.

Rycken, S. J. E., K. S. Warren, L. Yeap, R. Donaldson, P. Mawson, R. Dawson, and J. M. Shephard. 2022. Forest specialist species in the urban landscape: Do different levels of urbanization affect the movements of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso)? Avian Conservation and Ecology 17(1):11.

Yeap et al. 2021, Application of tri-axial accelerometer data to the interpretation of movement and behaviour of threatened black cockatoos, Wildlife Research, https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20073

Rycken et al. 2021, Regional Variation in Habitat Matrix Determines Movement Metrics in Baudin’s Cockatoos in Southwest Western Australia, Wildlife Research, 48:18-29.

Rycken et al. 2019, Assessing Integration of Black Cockatoos Using Change Point Analysis, The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83:334-342.

Shephard J.M. and Warren K.S. 2019, Conservation management of forest red-tailed black cockatoos associated with the Maddington-Kenwick Strategic Employment Area Precinct 3 (MKSEA P3) industrial development. Report for MKSEA Pty. Ltd., Western Australia. Downloadable.

Shephard J.M. and Warren K.S., 2018, The Potential Role of the Forest Product Commission’s Midwest Pine Plantations as a Food Resource for Carnaby’s Cockatoo: A Concept Study using GPS and Satellite Tag Data. Report for The Forest Products Commission, Western Australia. Downloadable.

Yeap et al. 2017, Development of a Tag-Attachment Method to Enable Capture of Fine- and Landscape-Scale Movement in Black Cockatoos, Australian Field Ornithology, 34: 49-55. Downloadable.

Yeap et al. 2015, Satellite Tracking of Rehabilitated Baudin’s Cockatoos, Calyptorhynchus baudinii: a feasibility trial to track forest black cockatoos, Pacific Conservation Biology, 21:163-167.

Groom et al. 2014, Attachment and performance of Argos satellite tracking devices fitted to black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.), Wildlife Research, 41: 571-583.

Saunders et al. 2014, Nature conservation on agricultural land: a case study of the endangered Carnaby’s Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris breeding at Koobabbie in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia, Nature Conservation, 9: 19-43.