Wallabies in the ACT

[Don Fletcher <>]

Wow!  Excellent web site David.

 

ACT-region macropods extinct (in the wild) in last 200 years include Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby#, Eastern Bettong#*, Long-nosed Potoroo#, and possibly Rufous Bettong and Tasmanian Pademelon  (# present as captive species, * = subject to current trials of reintroduction methods at LCC).  There may have been others. It is very hard to tell. For example the Tasmanian Long-tailed Mouse was never thought even to have been a mainland species until sub-fossil remains were found in local cave deposits. Kangaroos and wallabies are too large to be well represented in such deposits.  In the longer term there would have been many more local macropod species brought to extinction by humans. Flannery estimated from the fossil record there were 100 species of kangaroos when humans arrived, not only the well-known giant kangaroos but also many small species.

Don Fletcher

 

From: David Rees [
Sent: Tuesday, 5 September 2017 9:59 AM
To: Don Fletcher <>
Cc: Terry Bell <>; chatline canberrabirds <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Wallabies in the ACT

 

Terry

 

Have a look at my Australian animals Video site  http://australiananimals.tv/ or https://vimeo.com/channels/ozanimals

 

All the local Macropods (not yet the Betong -seen but not filmed)  that Don mentioned plus others can been seen  at either address.

 

David R

 

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Don Fletcher <> wrote:

Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
Common Wallaroo (Macropus robustus) (dark phase rather than the more rufous
phase 'Euro' to the west)
Red-necked Wallaby  (Macropus rufogriseus)
Swamp or Black Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) in Tidbinbilla enclosures
Eastern Bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) in the fenced Mulligans Flat Woodland
Sanctuary, in the trial release area of Lower Cotter catchment and in the
Tidbinbilla enclosures.
Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) in the Tidbinbilla enclosures

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