Black Swan at Forde, ACT
Identification history
| Cygnus atratus | 28 Nov 2020 | Illilanga | ||
| Cygnus atratus | 26 Nov 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Fulica atra | 26 Nov 2020 | TrishGungahlin |
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User's notes
Coots, swans and their chicks and cygnets rush to the edge to be fed bread. Lyall Gillespie Corridor.
3 comments
Illilanga
wrote:
28 Nov 2020
Please let people know not to feed bread (or any processed human food) to the birds. It is really bad for them and could kill the birds plus it pollutes the water. Thanks.
TrishGungahlin
wrote:
28 Nov 2020
There's a faded sign about this on the opposite side of the pond in the Lyall Gillespie Corridor, but none on the side with the boardwalks. There are no signs beside nearby Yerrabi Pond either, where lots of people feed birds near the picnic areas. Which part of the ACT government would take care of such signs? I'd like to contact them.
Illilanga
wrote:
28 Nov 2020
Bummer about the signs. Contact Michael Mulvaney and he can pass on to appropriate people. If you have no luck, let me know and I can pass it on to Canberra Ornithologists Group so they can lobby for more signs. Cheers, Sandra
Location information
- Coordinates 149.141753-35.175503
- Maps Yerrabi Pond
- Places Forde, ACT
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 25 Nov 2020 06:33 AM Recorded on
- TrishGungahlin Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Waterfowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans) Water birds TrishGungahlin Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Cygnus atratus Scientific name
- Black Swan Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 989.6m Recorded at altitude
- 796 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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