1 Australasian Grebe at Symonston, ACT
Identification history
| Tachybaptus novaehollandiae | 6 Feb 2023 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Tachybaptus novaehollandiae | 5 Feb 2023 | RodDeb |
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1 visible egg. The pair are using what looks like strips of rubber lining from the bottom of the "pond" to build their nest as there is hardly any plant material around for them to use, no reeds etc. Also not sure how much food there is in this pond for them or any future offspring.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.160121-35.342509
- Places Symonston, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 5 Feb 2023 12:50 PM Recorded on
- RodDeb Recorded by
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Birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds RodDeb Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Tachybaptus novaehollandiae Scientific name
- Australasian Grebe Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1069.9m Recorded at altitude
- 640 images trained Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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