Tachyglossus aculeatus
Short-beaked Echidna at Watson, ACT
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| Tachyglossus aculeatus | abread111 | 29 Apr 2025 | |
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | CarbonAI | 28 Apr 2025 | |
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | JodieR | 28 Apr 2025 |
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3 comments
4 May 2025
Hi JodieR, thanks for your sighting. It looks like the location information you provided is incorrect. This can occur if the GPS sensor in your device was having a bad day. Please review and update the location of this record when you get a chance.
Which is weird, since I think it was OK when I first looked at this sighting.
BarbR
Which is weird, since I think it was OK when I first looked at this sighting.
BarbR
4 May 2025
Hi all, I think it is actually most often the operator having a bad day. The civilian GPS systems we use are no longer subject to selective availability. And modern phones and recreational GPS units now communicate with five GPS systems of different nations, all at once. USA (GPS), Russian (Glonass), European (Galileo), Indian, and Japanese. They are unlikely to all have a bad day at once. I suspect people sometimes forget to save their waypoint on the spot, then it saves later, on another location, when they shut their app down.
5 May 2025
Not sure what's going on with the location. When I checked sighting it showed it on Mt Majura, which is where the sighting occurred. I've repinned it. hopefully this has fixed it.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.170696-35.224317
- Maps The Fair, Watson Mount Majura
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 27 Apr 2025 03:53 PM Recorded on
- JodieR Recorded by
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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
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