A DAYTON resident is calling for water troughs for black cockatoos in the area like the one in use in the Town of Victoria Park.

Resident Catherine Dixon said the troughs cost $6000 each but were necessary due to the water ways being filled in and drainage now through underground pipes, leaving no water for the birds and no natural flow into Whiteman Park and other natural waterways that go to the Swan River.

Ms Dixon said she had picked up a red-tailed black cockatoo in Whiteman Park the other day near the cycle path.

“So no cars around so I reckon the bird has (died) because it hasn’t had enough water or food,’’ she said.

“In Whiteman Park, Mussel Pool is completely dry and there’s usually water in there.

“Because the waterways have been filled in, Mussel Pool is not getting any water in it so the frogs are dying.

“The birds have got no-where to go to drink.

“We’re creating a disaster and it shouldn’t be happening in today’s age and what’s going on in the world.’’

She moved to Dayton because it was close to the Swan Valley and because of all the trees.

“(But) the trees are all being knocked out – there’s a farmhouse on the corner of Harrow Street that’s about to be turned into more land for houses and they’re going to knock over every single tree and I think there is at least 200 trees on that farm land – well established trees that are 30, 40, 50-years-old.’’

This comes after West Swan resident Jan Zeck saying in November last year that residents in the Swan Valley were concerned that black cockatoos in the City of Swan, particularly Carnaby’s, were in stress through loss of habitat and were starving due to the clearing of foraging habitat along with failure of banksias to set seed after the previous year’s extreme summer heat.

Ms Dixon said the state government and land developers were making a mess of the land and water ways by pulling out all the trees and covering up water ways, which was backing up the water table and killing the land.

“We’re going to kill so many trees doing this,’’ she said.

“I get so cross with the land developers – the City of Swan can talk to land developers and the state government because there is a chain of command.”

She said the community were at the bottom of that chain but they were the ones telling everyone else something had to be done about the situation before it was too late.

“The state government needs to step up – I know it’s another problem they have to address but all they have to do is do it right once – they just have to put in policies and then the land developers have to follow that and that’s it – that’s all they have to do.

“A lot of the locals can talk to you about it and they can tell you exactly what to do if they want some help.’’