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DonFletcher wrote:

Yesterday

@nathkay has confirmed the location is correct - on a sealed walking track to Gibraltar falls.

Isoodon obesulus obesulus

Aussiegall wrote:

26 Jan 2025

Great photos, lots of visitors to the camera

Perameles nasuta

DonFletcher wrote:

26 Jan 2025

Hi @JimL, I just noticed the location is wrong. Could you correct it please. (It is shown well outside the Sanctuary but the presence of the path in the photo gives away the true location).

Isoodon obesulus obesulus

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

25 Jan 2025

Well done Nathan - amazing find

Isoodon obesulus obesulus

DonFletcher wrote:

24 Jan 2025

@nathkay I'd like to get some details right please. (Why? Because we should get stuff right in any case but also because this is the first record of this species in the ACT as a whole wild animal. It was previously known from bones and fur in eagle nests at Wanniassa and Rob Roy in 2003. Extensive searches in following years failed to find the source population. Later the species was introduced by local staff to the enclosures at Tidbinbilla but some individuals quickly escaped through holes in the fence. So your animal may have been either a descendent of the captive ones, or part of the 'missing' local wild population which was the source of the bones and fur.)

The photo shows the animal on a road but the location given is not on a road. Could you please correct the location. Second, could you please confirm all other details, such as the date, and that the specimen was not collected nor any samples taken (other than a photo) and that it has completely disappeared?

Isoodon obesulus obesulus