Australasian Swamphen at Belconnen, ACT
Identification history
| Porphyrio melanotus | 22 Dec 2018 | ArcherCallaway | ||
| Porphyrio melanotus | 22 Dec 2018 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
What the urban swamphen is eating and feeding its young. A few weeks back, at the same location, I saw one of these carrying a pristine McDonalds takeaway paper bag. I was too slow with my camera before it took it off into the reeds.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.072987-35.238627
- Altitude 587.0m
- Maps Lake Ginninderra
- Places Belconnen, ACT
Sighting information
- 6 Abundance
- 22 Dec 2018 03:05 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Porphyrio melanotus Scientific name
- Australasian Swamphen Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 796.5m Recorded at altitude
- 271 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio
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- 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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