Mapping of a large cockatoo design in a paddock near Wagga Wagga will start on Thursday 27 October as Charles Sturt University (CSU) students prepare to have the geoglyph photographed from space. Under the guidance of lecturers from CSU's School of Science and Technology, students studying spatial science at the University will spray the outline of the geoglyph or large drawing on earth from 10am, Thursday 27 October in a paddock of Patterson’s Cruse in the village of Oura, near Wagga Wagga. With the cockatoo the work of Wiradjuri artist Allison Wighton, mowers will cut into the paddock on Sunday 30 October to coincide with the local community’s celebration of the Indigenous meaning of Oura – Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.