Wallabia bicolor

1 Swamp Wallaby at Red Hill, ACT

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Identification history

	Wallabia bicolor	5 Aug 2019	DonFletcher
	Notamacropus rufogriseus	4 Aug 2019	JonSteinbeck

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User's notes

A Red-necked Wallaby bounded away from me as I walked along the north side of Red Hill. Initially this wallaby hopped away up the hill and I thought I had lost it. I later saw it through an old fence on the hill in the midst of some small trees. It was a distance away but bounced away as soon as I took a step in its direction. Later I saw if further up the hill from me but still among a dense group of low trees. It looked at me for a little while over its shoulder before slowly moving further up the hill into a thicker tangle of trees.

2 comments

DonFletcher wrote:

6 Aug 2019

Hi Birds in Canberra
Many thanks for your observations of this and the fighting EGKs. This one is a Black Wallaby aka Swamp Wallaby.

JonSteinbeck wrote:

6 Aug 2019

Hi DonFletcher, Many thanks for the correction

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Location information

Coordinates 149.118508 -35.328032
Altitude 681.1m
Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
Places Red Hill, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
27 Jul 2019 08:17 AM Recorded on
JonSteinbeck Recorded by
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BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Kangaroos & Wallabies Mammals

Species information

Wallabia bicolor Scientific name
Swamp Wallaby Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1338.8m Recorded at altitude
868 images trained Machine learning
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