Hydromys chrysogaster

1 Rakali or Water Rat at Giralang, ACT

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Identification history

	Hydromys chrysogaster	15 Jun 2019	MichaelBedingfield
	Hydromys chrysogaster	14 Jun 2019	AlisonMilton

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Took 4 visits to get a decent photo. First seen slipping into the water at same spot last Wednesday but not seen again. Went back on Tuesday and it was swimming up and down the other side of the creek. Standing looking upstream where I'd last seen it, but turned round just in time to see it disappearing under a grass tussock and movement of the ground as it dug further in; just a metre away - same place as first seen. Suspect this is its burrow. Today, spotted it swimming across the creek towards me, but perhaps seeing me kept swimming back & forth as if deciding to continue to this side or retreat, which it did. Sat on a mud tussock then leapt up and into the water; swam upstream and must have crossed over as I saw it skim past the back of the reeds near me but it didn't come out of the water.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.087623 -35.212988
Altitude 591.0m
Maps Lake Ginninderra Giralang Wetlands
Places Giralang, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
14 Jun 2019 12:46 PM Recorded on
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Species information

Hydromys chrysogaster Scientific name
Rakali or Water Rat Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1940m Recorded at altitude
350 images trained Machine learning
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