Black Swan at Gungahlin, ACT
Identification history
| Cygnus atratus | 28 Jul 2017 | ArcherCallaway | ||
| Cygnus atratus | 28 Jul 2017 | ArcherCallaway | ||
| Unidentified | 28 Jul 2017 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
The male came up from the water and stood watching me. I thought he was looking for food until I realised there was a nesting female and I decided to leave. Only then did the male fend me off as I backed up with his beak firmly against my camera lens. I was thankful for the long lens. Second photo taken from a safer distance.
4 comments
ArcherCallaway
wrote:
29 Jul 2017
Is this on the island itself? It tends to be a mound of reeds in the water so this is rather unusual. How unusual I'm not sure, but possibly worth investigating.
AlisonMilton
wrote:
29 Jul 2017
Looks like the GPS location has been taken from my second photo where I was standing on the opposite bank.
michaelb
wrote:
29 Jul 2017
As a general rule, the system takes the location from the last photo loaded.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.136523-35.173988
- Altitude 681.2m
- Maps Yerrabi Pond
- Places Gungahlin, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 28 Jul 2017 09:29 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Cygnus atratus Scientific name
- Black Swan Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 989.6m Recorded at altitude
- 696 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus
Record quality
- Overall Fit for scientific/research use
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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