Vombatus ursinus
Bare-nosed Wombat, Common wombat at Isaacs, ACT
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| Vombatus ursinus | MichaelMulvaney | 19 Sep 2018 | |
| Vombatus ursinus | roymcd | 17 Sep 2018 |
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These are two different photos of two different scats. Walking along the ridge I casually counted six different scat piles on rocks. One pile could be a coincidence, but six piles seems very suspicious of wombat scat to me. Maybe there's a hardy survivor hiding on Isaacs's Ridge? -that would be quite a scoop!
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20 Sep 2018
I saw a hole in the fence and tried to follow the track around the hill but lost it in the dry ground and rabbit warrens. There was a dead wombat at Long Gully Road a couple of weeks ago but fhese are fresh scats.
20 Sep 2018
Thanks Mike, any thoughts on whether this is a sneaky long term resident, or a new coloniser???
20 Sep 2018
I don't know if this is old or new, but it seems to be an extension of range. There are reports of a wombat near the top of Long Gully Road (where I found the dead one) and I think there is a burrow further down the hill. Wikipedia gives their range as 23 ha but it is a long climb up to the top of the ridge. Maybe there isn't much food around.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.124167-35.377013
- Maps Isaacs Ridge and Nearby
- Places Isaacs, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Sep 2018 05:19 PM Recorded on
- roymcd Recorded by
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Species information
- Vombatus ursinus Scientific name
- Bare-nosed Wombat, Common wombat Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1718.73m Recorded at altitude
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