Equus caballus
Horse, Feral Horse at Watson, ACT
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| Equus caballus | MichaelBedingfield | 15 Feb 2025 | |
| Equus caballus | MichaelBedingfield | 15 Feb 2025 | |
| Sus scrofa | CarbonAI | 29 Jul 2024 | |
| Equus caballus | waltraud | 24 Jul 2024 |
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In grassy woodland at start of informal track; horse dung not from a wild horse I assume; I assume the horse was written in the grassy woodland a couple of weeks ago judged by the age of the dung. There were problems with horses - or should I say horse riders - years ago when the gate at the bottom of Oldfields Lane was open.
6 comments
29 Jul 2024
Sorry Waltraud. As you said, it is not from a wild horse. We can't record domestic horses as Brumbies. People ride horses in a number of our nature reserves, and we don't record them as Brumbies. Examples are Urambi Hills and along the Murrumbidgee River on the Bicentennial trail. I’ve placed a comment because the “Inconclusive” utility is crashing.
29 Jul 2024
I confirmed as horse just to stop Carbon identifying it as pig, and CNM then sending me an email.
30 Jul 2024
The only reason I record the horse poo is to convince PCS to keep the gate shut.
30 Jul 2024
As for the other record Waltraud. The sighting with photos will remain on CNM in the Mt Majura Unidentified list..... https://canberra.naturemapr.org/locations/sightings/1?filter=unidentified
30 Jul 2024
okay https://canberra.naturemapr.org/users/8083, I'll use the CNM links in a letter to PCS / CNPnorth and remove the records once I receive an acknowledgement for my letter (which I hope will take less than a year).
Location information
- Places Watson, ACT
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- waltraud NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Equus caballus Other hoofed mammals Feral hoofed introduced mammals Mammals
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- Equus caballus Scientific name
- Horse, Feral Horse Common name
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- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- Up to 2096.6m Recorded at altitude
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