Short-beaked Echidna at Gundaroo, NSW
Identification history
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | 27 Oct 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unidentified | 27 Oct 2024 | ConBoekel |
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User's notes
This looked to be on an old meat ant nest. No live meat ants were observed. at this site but they were active elsewhere in the same area during the day. It was an exceptionally deep hole. I wonder whether the echidna ended up killing the ant colony.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.301753-35.017608
- Altitude 666.7m
- Maps Mcleods Creek Res (Gundaroo)
- Places Gundaroo, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Sep 2024 01:52 PM Recorded on
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Unidentified Mammals Monotremes ConBoekel Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Tachyglossus aculeatus Scientific name
- Short-beaked Echidna Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1888.33m Recorded at altitude
- 759 images trained Machine learning
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