Australasian Swamphen at Gungahlin, ACT
Identification history
| Porphyrio melanotus | 14 Oct 2020 | natureguy | ||
| Porphyrio melanotus | 12 Oct 2020 | TrishGungahlin |
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Two families of swamphens with new chicks in the same clump of reeds. One family had two chicks, the other had one.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.131338-35.176639
- Maps Yerrabi Pond
- Places Gungahlin, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- 12 Oct 2020 09:39 AM Recorded on
- TrishGungahlin Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Water birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) TrishGungahlin Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Porphyrio melanotus Scientific name
- Australasian Swamphen Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 796.5m Recorded at altitude
- 283 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
