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Note: There is ZERO guarantee that the backyard tree in which they were foraging will still be there next season. All over the middle northside of Brisbane, all larger trees are rapidly vanishing from private property. Half the time these days when a block changes hands the first thing the new owners do is run a bulldozer from one end of the block to the other removing not only the existing house but also all vegetation and topsoil: blank slate. This eliminates - totally - ALL wildlife large or small that previously inhabited that location and also ensures there is NOTHING for visitors/ transients such as these cockatoos. Brisbane City Council claims they are going to plant X number of trees.. but I'd love to know just how many large mature trees have vanished both from private and public lands within Greater Brisbane in the meantime. X number of tiny tubestock or saplings scattered about the place usually in noisy-miner-friendly 'avenue plantings' do not make up for the loss of twice or more than twice that number of large fully-grown established trees.