Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

2 Australasian Grebe at Red Hill, ACT

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Identification history

	Tachybaptus novaehollandiae	14 Dec 2019	Illilanga
	Tachybaptus novaehollandiae	14 Dec 2019	JonSteinbeck

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There was a single Australasian Grebe swimming on a local pond. I thought this bird was just swimming, looking for food, when it climbed on top a mess of leaves and other plant matter. The bird then commenced poking at the leaves, before it sat on top of the pile. In looking at the photographs later there may have been an egg in the middle of the pile, partly covered by some leaves. The grebe did not stay on the nest long before it once again started swimming but on the closer side of the nest. I am not sure why it went back to the nest as it did not stay there long and none of the other birds were heading for the nest, although a juvenile Eurasian Coot was also swimming in that part of the pond.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.106345 -35.333933
Altitude 631.7m
Maps Federal Golf Course
Places Red Hill, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
8 Dec 2019 08:59 AM Recorded on
JonSteinbeck Recorded by
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BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds Birds

Additional information

True Nesting site

Species information

Tachybaptus novaehollandiae Scientific name
Australasian Grebe Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1069.9m Recorded at altitude
691 images trained Machine learning

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania