1 Grey-headed Flying-fox at Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
Identification history
| Pteropus poliocephalus | 25 Apr 2024 | DonFletcher | ||
| Pteropus poliocephalus | 25 Apr 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Pteropus poliocephalus | 25 Apr 2024 | LisaH |
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User's notes
While noisy minors aren't my favourite birds, their 'alert alert' calls have led me to some interesting finds. Late this afternoon, their congregated calls led me to this grey-headed bat - which I think is a female, carefully protecting a pup in her membranous wings?
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.090246-35.327100
- Maps Hughes Grassy Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 25 Apr 2024 06:31 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Mammals Bats Flying Foxes & Other Megabats LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT threatened species
Additional information
- Female Gender
- Dependent young Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Pteropus poliocephalus Scientific name
- Grey-headed Flying-fox Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Vulnerable *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- -0.66m to 802.28m Recorded at altitude
- 162 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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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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