Wallabia bicolor
Swamp Wallaby at Tharwa, ACT
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| Wallabia bicolor | DonFletcher | 19 Apr 2025 | |
| Wallabia bicolor | CarbonAI | 19 Apr 2025 | |
| Wallabia bicolor | JillianM | 19 Apr 2025 |
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User's notes
Was eating the plant in the second photo - possibly ozothamnus that had finished flowering?
4 comments
19 Apr 2025
Hi @JillianM, thanks for your record.
Black (Swamp) Wallabies are browsers (unlike the grass-eating kangaroos and Red Necked Wallaby) and eat a wide variety of vegetation. Their droppings contain coarser plant fragments than the droppings of the other local macropod species.
Black (Swamp) Wallabies are browsers (unlike the grass-eating kangaroos and Red Necked Wallaby) and eat a wide variety of vegetation. Their droppings contain coarser plant fragments than the droppings of the other local macropod species.
19 Apr 2025
@DonFletcher Thanks. I'm interested to know what the shrub was (2nd photo). It's about a metre high and the quantity was quite dense in amongst the exposed rocks.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.988357-35.559006
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Apr 2025 12:32 PM Recorded on
- JillianM Recorded by
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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Species information
- Wallabia bicolor Scientific name
- Swamp Wallaby Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1338.8m Recorded at altitude
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