2 Highlands Copperhead at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Austrelaps ramsayi | 8 Nov 2021 | wombey | ||
| Austrelaps ramsayi | 8 Nov 2021 | BrianH |
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User's notes
First one I’ve seen this spring. This individual was in an unburnt area. Last spring I saw several copperheads in burnt areas too. I wonder if consumption of leaf litter has reduced lizard numbers in burnt areas and hence also copperhead numbers?
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.778856-35.526436
- Altitude 1670.4m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 8 Nov 2021 02:43 PM Recorded on
- BrianH Recorded by
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Reptiles and Frogs Snakes BrianH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Austrelaps ramsayi Scientific name
- Highlands Copperhead Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1759.9m Recorded at altitude
- 123 images trained Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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