Brumby, Wild Horse at Watson, ACT
Identification history
| Equus caballus | 15 Feb 2025 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Equus caballus | 15 Feb 2025 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Sus scrofa | 29 Jul 2024 | CarbonAI |
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In grassy woodland; horse dung not from a wild horse I assume; I assume the horse was written in the grassy woodland a couple of weeks ago judged by the age of the dung. There were problems with horses - or should I say horse riders - years ago when the gate at the bottom of Oldfields Lane was open.
13 comments
abread111
wrote:
24 Jul 2024
Looks like we need a "No Horses" sign of the new gateway for bikes and people next to the gate which links the management track to Oldfields Lane
waltraud
wrote:
25 Jul 2024
It could be that the northern gate along Oldfields lane was open for a short while; it is now closed. It happened before and the horse riders seem to use the opportunity straight away. People were riding to and into the dam. I took photos and wrote a couple of letters to Parks before the gate was shut. I think it is a problem if people get used to a certain behaviour which they finally may see as a "right" .... I will keep an eye there might be other access points.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Jul 2024
Sorry Waltraud. As you said, it is not from a wild horse. We can't record domestic horses as Brumbies. People ride horses in a number of our nature reserves, and we don't record them as Brumbies. Examples are Urambi Hills and along the Murrumbidgee River on the Bicentennial trail. I’ve placed a comment because the “Inconclusive” utility is crashing.
DonFletcher
wrote:
29 Jul 2024
I confirmed as horse just to stop Carbon identifying it as pig, and CNM then sending me an email.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Jul 2024
We need a few more photos of horses. CarbonAI needs to have 100 photos of horses before it can identify them. Recent sightings by MB have helped a lot... Equus caballus
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Jul 2024
Thanks Don. If you have some sightings of brumbies to add that would be excellent !
waltraud
wrote:
30 Jul 2024
guys I took the pics and recorded on CNM basically only to convince Parks that we have a problem if certain gates left open. I'm afraid I need photo proof....
DonFletcher
wrote:
30 Jul 2024
Hi @waltraud, what you provided is excellent evidence that a horse was present. There is a separate issue being discussed here, nothing to do with your record. The issue is that CarbonAI classifies all images of actual horses as 'sus scrofa' because so few feral horse photos have been uploaded. We are in the process of finding people with photos of feral horses in Kosciuszko and asking them to upload, to overcome the problem.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
30 Jul 2024
That's ok Waltraud. The sighting with photos will remain on CNM in the Mt Majura Unidentified list..... https://canberra.naturemapr.org/locations/sightings/1?filter=unidentified
waltraud
wrote:
30 Jul 2024
DonFletcher
Can't you draw pictures of horse and swine and teach CarbonAI?
Can't you draw pictures of horse and swine and teach CarbonAI?
Location information
- Coordinates 149.167711-35.229606
- Altitude 625.3m
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 24 Jul 2024 02:17 PM Recorded on
- waltraud Recorded by
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Collections
waltraud NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Other hoofed mammals Feral hoofed introduced mammals Mammals
Species information
- Equus caballus Scientific name
- Brumby, Wild Horse Common name
- Sensitive
- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- Up to 2096.6m Recorded at altitude
- 44 images trained Machine learning
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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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