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Discussion

KylieWaldon wrote:

9 Mar 2025

great series of pics!

Petaurus norfolcensis

DonFletcher wrote:

6 Mar 2025

Hi @JanetRussell, are you able to correct the location? Or do you want me to do that? These are the coordinates of a grassy yard that I picked in Flavel Ave Woodforde: -34.901465, 138.690361 ie slightly further north and 10.5 degrees further west than Reid.

Macropus giganteus

JanetRussell wrote:

6 Mar 2025

The coordinates are wrong. The kangaroo does not visit Reid. It was sighted at Flavel St at Woodforde in South Australia.

Macropus giganteus

KellyP wrote:

6 Mar 2025

Hi @DonFletcher - thanks for your helpful response. I guess its possible they are juvenile Rattus rattus, but they don't look or behave like baby rats (my husband concurs) - but if they continue to hang around I will try to get more picks/video to see if I can get the underside of the rear feet and also see if they get bigger. When we were still feeding parrots (I know, not good, we don't do it now), the same rodents would come down from our trees and eat in the early evening - they looked the same as these ones vs the real rats we sometimes get in the shed.

Rattus rattus

DonFletcher wrote:

5 Mar 2025

Hi @KellyP, thank you for the record. Did you consider juvenile Rattus rattus?
It would be lovely indeed to find a native species in a Canberra garden but to convince a moderator that a Rattus in the Canberra suburbs is a native species you would need very strong evidence. I think it would be the first ever. Mastacomys has very specific habitat requirements and has not been recorded in lowland areas (except during the last ice age). Rattus fuscipes does not penetrate suburbs anywhere, and must have disappeared long ago from the ACT lowands. If the video gives a lateral view or a look at the pads on the underside of the rear feet it could help with ID but Nature Mapper only accepts stills.

Rattus rattus