Aegotheles cristatus

4 Australian Owlet-nightjar at Spence, ACT

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Identification history

Aegotheles cristatus	30 Nov 2023	MatthewFrawley
Aegotheles cristatus	30 Nov 2023	CarbonAI
Aegotheles cristatus	30 Nov 2023	HelenCross
Unverified	30 Nov 2023	Watermilli

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This creature was in the top arch of our letterbox, possibly sheltering from the heavy rain on 29Nov (we had had 60mm by that time). When I looked at it from the back end, it appeared to have tail feathers. From the front, soon after this photo was taken (by someone else), I couldn't see a beak. Just two beady eyes and a greyish knob where a closed beak would be. Not good light, so not easy to see. (I also wondered if it was a fruit bat, and if the 'tail feathers' were not feathers at all.) By 6am on 30 November it had disappeared.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.072383 -35.199071
Places Spence, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
29 Nov 2023 05:55 PM Recorded on
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Species information

Aegotheles cristatus Scientific name
Australian Owlet-nightjar Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 852m Recorded at altitude
143 images trained Machine learning

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania