Thanks Rowlad - about 40% of Gang-gang foraging time is spent feeding on Eucalyptus including flowers, fruits but largely gum nuts -but they are not to picky on the eucalypt species having been recorded on many tens of species including now Woila Gum. They seem to like species with larger sized gum nuts and tend to feed on the nuts when they are unripe
Thank you, Michael, the relevance of that eucalypt as a diet species had not occurred to me. I imagine that in the tree's natural location (which I understand to be near the Big Badja, in the hills between Cooma and the coast) Gang-gangs must come across it up there. I think that the tree is called 'Woila Gum', apparently pronounced 'Wow-ly gum'. The slightly ribbed fruit are distinctive among those of local species. As you can see in the photo, it flowers and fruits fairly heavily—at least this specimen has—so I have dozens of fallen fruit in my garden, partly from the effects of Gang-gangs feeding in the tree.
