Ardea alba

Great Egret at Gordon, ACT

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Identification history

	Ardea alba	7 Jun 2021	natureguy
	Ardea alba	6 Jun 2021	RodDeb

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Just before (and why) we left a man and his son came along and started throwing in heavy weighted Yabby lures on long lines scaring a number of the birds away. As it is such a small pond we thought it was a bit unfair on the wildlife and mentioned this but it was totally ignored. We asked that they at least keep away from where the birds nest at the front but as we left no points for guessing where they went. It may be legal to do this but a bit of sense would be nice. Unfortunately there was not much else we could do.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.080196 -35.445757
Altitude 605.8m
Maps Gordon Pond
Places Gordon, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
6 Jun 2021 01:36 PM Recorded on
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Species information

Ardea alba Scientific name
Great Egret Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 700.2m Recorded at altitude
478 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Ardea modesta

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania