Bush Rat at Charleys Forest, NSW
Identification history
| Rattus fuscipes | 24 May 2025 | DonFletcher | ||
| Rattus rattus | 23 May 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unverified | 23 May 2025 | arjay |
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8 comments
DonFletcher
wrote:
23 May 2025
Hi arjay, thanks for your sighting. The media you provided is missing. To help us verify this sighting, please provide additional media.
arjay
wrote:
23 May 2025
Yeah put it down to rain or something. For some reason images sometimes don't load. Even although it is the first thing that you actually do to report a sighting.
DonFletcher
wrote:
24 May 2025
Hi arjay, are you able to upload a photo of the sole of the hind foot, the other side with the intact ear and a better view of the scales on the tail. What is the surrounding habitat like?
arjay
wrote:
24 May 2025
These are the only two photos I have and they were taken in 2014 so the animal itself is long gone. I have loaded an magnified image of tail. Sorry no images of the other ear or hind foot. Will keep it in mind for next time. I had assumed it was R. fuscipes. It is not R. rattus. Tail too short although it looks like it has been trimmed a bit at some stage. Ears too small. Surrounding habitat is difficult. It varies a lot. Probably mostly dry sclerophyll forest that is extremely wet at the moment. Old cleared areas are reverting to forest via ti tree, Bursaria and wattles. Very slowly.
DonFletcher
wrote:
24 May 2025
Hi arjay, I agree with fuscipes but we see so few these days, compared to hundreds of R rattus, that I wanted more certainty. Verified as fuscipes.
arjay
wrote:
24 May 2025
We very rarely see black rats or for that matter house mice. Instead we have bush rats and antechinus both of which are much nicer animals.
Location information
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- arjay Recorded by
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Collections
arjay NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Rattus fuscipes Rats Rodents Mammals
Species information
- Rattus fuscipes Scientific name
- Bush Rat Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1585.55m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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