7 Southern Brown Bandicoot at Banks, ACT
Identification history
| Isoodon obesulus obesulus | 22 Oct 2022 | DonFletcher |
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Significant sighting
DonFletcher noted:
22 Oct 2022
This is the only ACT record to date of Isoodon obesulus (Southern Brown Bandicoot) of local wild origin. Now there are captive I. obesulus in 'The Sanctuary' at Tidbinbilla with potential to escape into the wild, but this occurrence predates the existence of that collection.
User's notes
Two left dentaries were found with other regurgitated eagle pellet material below the Rob Roy WTE nest by raptor PhD student Esteban Fuentes. They were found a few days after the 2003 bush fire. One dentary still retained red muscle fibres. Both are now in the ANWC collection. At that time there were no captive collections of Bandicoots in the ACT, because the former CSIRO collection of I. macroura had long gone, as had the Mugga Lane Zoo. And the Tidbinbilla collection of I. obesulus had not commenced. So these two animals came from a wild population.
Initially some confusion arose because the eagle nest location had been falsified to protect it. The nest location given here is closer to the real 'Rob Roy WTE nest' but still only approximately correct. This is not important because the nest location is not likely to be where the bandicoots were predated by the eagles! That place remains unknown.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.121473-35.489104
- Maps Rob Roy Range
- Places Banks, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 22 Jan 2003 03:14 PM Recorded on
- DonFletcher Recorded by
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Priority species lists
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Species information
- Isoodon obesulus obesulus Scientific name
- Southern Brown Bandicoot Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 834m Recorded at altitude
- 56 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Isoodon obesulus obesulus
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- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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