RE: Painted Snipe, Edithvale Wetlands, Vic

["Greg & Robin Czechura" <>]

It looks like a classic Brown Rat to me. Small ears and blunt snout are a
dead giveaway. The tail in norvegicus can be a little longer than the body.
Habitat and terrestrial behaviour also suggest norvegicus but are not in 
themselves diagnostic.

Black Rats have big ears and much more pointed snouts - which is why a lot
of people who see Black Rats think that they are "too cute to be rats"
(based on answering this question over twenty years in the Queensland
Museum's Inquiry Centre).

Nice behavioural pics by the way.

Cheers
Greg Czechura
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