Conservationists 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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