The palm cockatoo should be Brisbane Olympics mascot – imagine a stadium full of big crested hats and drumming on seats | Andrew Stafford

For all the behaviours cited in the first paragraph, palm cockatoos are ridiculously charismatic. I’ve seen them for myself. Late last November, in the mind-melting heat of Kutini-Payamu national park on northern Cape York, I watched a pair in full display for half an hour as the male showed off a prospective hollow to its mate.

Which, yes, would probably mean everyone would have to stand up to see. Still, that’s got to be better than everyone conking the person in front of them on the head with ibis-billed projections on their noggins. Whatever: we are talking about aBecause palm cockatoos need our help. Like many of our large arboreal birds, including owls and other cockatoos, the biggest threat is the loss of mature trees – at least 300 years old – containing hollows large enough to house the species.

The birds have a hard enough time breeding as it is. Though long-lived, palm cockatoos are especially slow to reproduce. Females lay just one egg biannually and, for reasons that are not entirely clear, have an extremely high nest failure rate: on average, only one chick successfully fledges every decade.

BirdlifeOz Brilliant such an awesome bird the palm cockatoo. Perfect mascot for the Brisbane Olympics

imagine being able to byo your own didgeridoo into the stadium 🏟 👊🏿

that is not as crazy an idea as you think...it works on so many levels....

Such cool birds!

BIN CHICKEN OR GTFO

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