Mammals
Kangaroos & Wallabies
Sighting 4662829

Wallabia bicolor

Swamp Wallaby at Tharwa, ACT

Wallabia bicolor at Tharwa, ACT - 18 Apr 2025 12:32 PM
Wallabia bicolor at Tharwa, ACT - 18 Apr 2025 12:32 PM
Wallabia bicolor at Tharwa, ACT - 18 Apr 2025 12:32 PM
Wallabia bicolor at Tharwa, ACT - 18 Apr 2025 12:32 PM
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Identification history

Wallabia bicolor 19 Apr 2025 DonFletcher
Wallabia bicolor 19 Apr 2025 CarbonAI
Wallabia bicolor 19 Apr 2025 JillianM

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User's notes

Was eating the plant in the second photo - possibly ozothamnus that had finished flowering?

4 comments

DonFletcher wrote:
   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.
JillianM wrote:
   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.
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
   19 Apr 2025
Shrub klooks like it is a Golden Shaggy-pea Oxylobium ellipticum
JillianM wrote:
   20 Apr 2025

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  • Unknown Gender
  • Alive / healthy Animal health

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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