Porphyrio melanotus

Australasian Swamphen at Franklin, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 149.145661-35.207417
• Altitude 609.0m
• Maps Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve
• Places Franklin, ACT

Sighting information

• 2 Abundance
• 24 Aug 2022 11:54 AM Recorded on
• AndyRoo Recorded by

• Collections

  Birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds AndyRoo Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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
• 284 images trained Machine learning

• Synonyms

  Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio

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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