Inconclusive sighting
Wild Boar, Feral Pig at Bruce, ACT
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Seeing the comments I think this one cannot be confirmed as a feral pig. CarbonAI has got the wrong ID and should be overruled.| Insufficient or inconclusive evidence | MichaelBedingfield | 9 Sep 2024 | |
| Sus scrofa | CarbonAI | 18 Aug 2024 | |
| Sus scrofa | ConBoekel | 18 Aug 2024 |
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Did not see an animal. Typical pig style of digging... I considered alternatives... wombat, birds like White-winged Chough and rabbit. None really fit. Checked for faeces and tracks but could not find any. The depth of digging suggests that the animal(s) may have been young rather than adult. Digging estimated to have occurred inside the past fortnight.
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19 Aug 2024
@ConBoekel @SteveBorkowskis , I find scale is difficult to grasp with these types of things, even when the photo includes a scale bar, but for me, this digging seems to be in the overlap zone between species, including domestic hens, lyrebirds, pigs and cockatoos, except the digging in the first photo may be too deep for cockatoos. And it does not seem to be within the NORMAL range for either rabbit, echidna, bandicoot, or kangaroo, but perhaps could be due to some exceptional aspect regarding those species. Which all is vague without supplementary evidence. To me it seems more like a lyrebird than anything else, but that seems unlikely in this location. Both pigs and Lyrebirds have been recorded on Black Mt so they are not completely, utterly impossible. But what about a stray rooster or hen from the nearby suburb?
19 Aug 2024
Hi Don
Thank you.
I doubt domestic chicken. Some of the holes were deeper, longer and broader than normal Su Crest Cocky diggings. I was aware of the Lyrebird records for Black Mountain. They might just be Lyrebird but the diggings are in open grassland.
The photographs are not good indications. There were what seemed to be single scoops which were up to 6-7 cm deep and 11-12 cm long. There were continuous patches of digging of up to 2 sqm, quite unlike echidnas. No rabbit scats in the vicinity. Some very old kangaroo scats in the vicinity. No wombat scats in the vicinity.
Thank you.
I doubt domestic chicken. Some of the holes were deeper, longer and broader than normal Su Crest Cocky diggings. I was aware of the Lyrebird records for Black Mountain. They might just be Lyrebird but the diggings are in open grassland.
The photographs are not good indications. There were what seemed to be single scoops which were up to 6-7 cm deep and 11-12 cm long. There were continuous patches of digging of up to 2 sqm, quite unlike echidnas. No rabbit scats in the vicinity. Some very old kangaroo scats in the vicinity. No wombat scats in the vicinity.
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- Sus scrofa Scientific name
- Wild Boar, Feral Pig Common name
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- Exotic
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 1945m Recorded at altitude
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