Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs with Dr Christine Groom

City of Bayswater Community Programs

Join Dr Christine Groom as she shares ways to enhance urban biodiversity to help the survival of black cockatoos.

Morley Library

Literary and Special Events

Enjoy an exciting line up throughout the year of authors, writing workshops and other special informative sessions and workshops. 

Bookings essential for all events.

Carnaby’s cockatoos are a part of the fabric of Perth. Their loud calls, messy feeding habits and endearing personalities make them easily recognisable to anyone living or visiting the suburbs of Perth.Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs provides the ‘how-to’ in a user-friendly way to help the survival of Carnaby’s cockatoos and enhance urban biodiversity.The book takes scientific research and transforms it into an easy to read and visually pleasing practical guide that anyone can pick up and learn from.Dr. Christine Groom is a member of Birdlife Australia. She is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at UWA. Christine lives in the Perth hills and Carnaby’s cockatoos regularly visit her garden to feed on and prune the banksias and hakeas planted for them. In 2015, Christine completed her PhD on Carnaby’s cockatoos in urban Perth by satellite tracking study birds and following their daily movements.