Swamp Wallaby at Paddys River, ACT
Identification history
| Wallabia bicolor | 8 Aug 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Petrogale penicillata | 11 Jun 2018 | roymcd |
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User's notes
Photo provides a useful comparison of brush-tailed and swamp wallabies.
3 comments
jadef0
wrote:
20 Jan 2019
The first two pictures and the animal in the bottom right of the third photo, is of a brush-tail rock wallaby (Petrogale penicillata), not a swamp wallaby.
roymcd
wrote:
21 Jan 2019
I've been thinking a little about the various subtle differences between the two. One detail that comes to mind is the difference in ear colour. The Swamp Wallaby has dark 'Mickey Mouse' ears while the Brush-tail has a paler pigmentation on the inner ear. Depending on the lighting, the Brush-tail can have dark ears, but generally its inner ear colour looks much paler.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.904424-35.459114
- Maps Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
- Places Paddys River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 May 2018 04:13 PM Recorded on
- roymcd Recorded by
Species information
- Wallabia bicolor Scientific name
- Swamp Wallaby Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1338.8m Recorded at altitude
- 375 images trained Machine learning
