Endangered glossy black cockatoo being lured to South Australian mainland with 20,000 trees

Conservations hope to tempt the subspecies from Kangaroo Island by planting drooping sheoaks and eucalypts

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Conservationists are planting trees to lure the endangered glossy black cockatoo back to the South Australian mainland, where it has been extinct for decades.

Two potential scouting" birds have already been spotted.

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