Tachyglossus aculeatus
Short-beaked Echidna at Hughes, ACT
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| Tachyglossus aculeatus | MichaelMulvaney | 10 Oct 2024 | |
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | CarbonAI | 9 Oct 2024 | |
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | JonSteinbeck | 9 Oct 2024 |
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Possibly a juvenile because it was not as large as I have seen other echidnas. It was wandering in our backyard from the direction of the front of our house and we are about 600 m in a straight-line from Red Hill Nature Reserve. It was basically walking in a straight line from north to south, heading towards our back fence. I tried to encourage it into a box to return it to the nature reserve, and keep it away from the roads, but it went defensive, digging itself in. I have left it in the yard and hope it can find a safe way through.
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10 Oct 2024
Thanks - we have had them in the suburb before hopefully it can find its way back
14 Oct 2024
Thans Michael. I suspect it spent the rest of the day and night in the yard but then found its way back out to the front of the house, sometime the next day. A tower of plastic pots were knocked over near a loose bit of wood in a fence sometime during that next day.
Location information
- Places Hughes, ACT
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- Tachyglossus aculeatus Scientific name
- Short-beaked Echidna Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1888.33m Recorded at altitude
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