![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Crowther, NSW - Yesterday by Frecko](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4729247/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Crowther, NSW - Yesterday by Frecko")
![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Crowther, NSW - Yesterday by Frecko](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4729245/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Crowther, NSW - Yesterday by Frecko")
![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Paddys River, ACT - 1 Jun 2026 by ChrisSutevski](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4729223/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Paddys River, ACT - 1 Jun 2026 by ChrisSutevski")
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beco
wrote:
Yesterday
Thank you Don, I am certainly no expert in this area. It was the compact size and long brushy tail that made me suggest BTRW.
I realise it would be an unlikely place to sight one.
Always happy for corrections or suggestions.
I realise it would be an unlikely place to sight one.
Always happy for corrections or suggestions.
Wallabia bicolor
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
Yesterday
Hi Don, I think it is more accurate to ID it as Dasyurus maculatus ssp. maculatus, currently listed as vulnerable.
Dasyurus maculatus ssp. maculatus
DonFletcher
wrote:
Yesterday
But if some BTRW had escaped from the enclosures at Tid, would they know immediately and would they tell us straight away? Not necessarily. So there is always the thinnest of faint chances that a BTRW-like Black Wallaby sighting was actually a BTRW!
Wallabia bicolor
DonFletcher
wrote:
Yesterday
Black Wallabies (aka Swamp Wallabies) (Wallabia bicolor) are widespread. Many of them look quite like BTRW (Petrogale penicillata) especially when motionless. They have often been mistaken for BTRW. I think the only Rock Wallabies in our region are behind fences at Tidbinbilla/Jedbinbilla.
Wallabia bicolor
Significant sightings
- Austrostipa verticillata at Campbell, ACT
- Crowea exalata subsp. exalata at Chisholm, ACT
- Petauroides volans at Uriarra Village, ACT
- Myrmecophilus testaceus at Gundary, NSW
- Gleditsia triacanthos at Curtin, ACT
- Persicaria attenuata at Evatt, ACT
- Calotis glandulosa at Anglers Reach, NSW
- Zanda funerea at Deakin, ACT
- Keyacris scurra
- Bothriochloa bladhii at Googong, NSW
- Paramorpha rhachias at Cook, ACT
- Bidens subalternans at Kambah, ACT
- Cyperus leptocarpus at Yarralumla, ACT
- Potamogeton perfoliatus at Krawarree, NSW
- Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata at Chapman, ACT
- Sminthopsis murina at Hackett, ACT
- Corunastylis cornuta at Captains Flat, NSW
- Corunastylis clivicola at Captains Flat, NSW
- Burhinus grallarius
- Appias paulina at Uriarra Village, ACT
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