 While regarded as largely sedentary, adults my seasonally relocate outside of the breeding site and immature birds may be driven to new sites where the species is unrecorded in the breeding season.Changes in land use, such as clearing around frontage at permanent water, has resulted in species becoming absent where it had been previously recorded.Gould described the species as "abundant" around the Swan River colony in 1848, some twenty years after settlement of the region.