Dusky Moorhen at Kingston, ACT
Identification history
| Gallinula tenebrosa | 20 Dec 2017 | ChrisDavey | ||
| Gallinula tenebrosa | 17 Dec 2017 | ChrisDavey | ||
| Fulica atra | 10 Dec 2017 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
One adult and three chicks.
2 comments
ChrisDavey
wrote:
15 Dec 2017
I am not very experienced at the id of chicks of this species but looking at the pictures in HANZAB I would id these as Dusky Moorhen rather than Coot chicks. Coot chicks have a black tip to the bill and Dusky Moorhen do not otherwise the chicks are very similar. Alison, did you see the chicks being fed? Chris
AlisonMilton
wrote:
15 Dec 2017
Hi Chris, you now have me questioning my memory. I remember thinking at the time that it was coot. There were no other birds around, only the one adult and the three chicks following into the reeds. I didn't get a photo of the adult as she dropped down into the weir, while the chicks stayed up top. However, checking other photos they do look more like Dusky moorhen chicks.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.146540-35.314913
- Altitude 619.2m
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin Central/East
- Places Kingston, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- 7 Dec 2017 12:40 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds
Species information
- Gallinula tenebrosa Scientific name
- Dusky Moorhen Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1080.5m Recorded at altitude
- 238 images trained Machine learning
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