4 Swamp Wallaby at Oakdale, NSW
Identification history
| Wallabia bicolor | 12 Feb 2023 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Wallabia bicolor | 11 Feb 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unverified | 11 Feb 2023 | bufferzone |
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Black eastern Wallaroo I have a few picks of Males Females and females with Joeys I dont Know yet how to place multiple pictures onto Nature map
13 comments
AaronClausen
wrote:
12 Feb 2023
Hi @michaelb @MichaelMulvaney do you guys know what this is? A wallaroo?
bufferzone
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
Can some one explain please google states that swamp wallabies are small, ""They are small in stature, standing just 65 to 85 centimetres (2 to 2.5 feet) tall, and weighing up to 15 kilograms (33 pounds). " the one in this picture is well over 1 meter tall as is its partner, well above the sizes stated on the internet? that trail Camera behind him is set at 1 meter 3 feet above the ground making this fella at least 1.5 meters, 4 foot 11 inches almost 5 feet tall, are there different species of bush wallbies?
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
To put extra photos on a sighting, click on "Edit" at the top of the page. Then you can slide them into the media box. PS there is no way that this is a male Wallaroo, which I have seen up close. Visit Osphranter robustus robustus (Eastern Wallaroo)
AaronClausen
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
He's certainly a very big boy! I reckon it looks like a BIG wallabia bicolor.
bufferzone
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
thank you all for your help Its just that he is a big wallaby and definitely too big when reading swamp wallaby descriptions,
DonFletcher
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
Hi all. This is a guaranteed Wallabia bicolor i.e. Black Wallaby (aka Swamp Wallaby, but the Victorian common name 'Black' is far more appropriate as they do not live in swamps and are the darkest of wallaby species). The quotation obtained with Google is misleading as the males normally grow bigger than indicated. However they are quite noticeably smaller than any local kangaroo species such as a Wallaroo. I doubt the accuracy of the height estimate 'almost 5 feet tall' but this is clearly a very male individual (look at his forearms, muzzle and testes) and might well be bigger than average. Various books I consulted give the same identical size range of males (so they are copying each other) up to 20kg and Head-body length 847mm. I think I encountered bigger ones than that at Tidbinbilla. It's not surprising to see such undersized figures in otherwise reliable text books. For example the text books persist in quoting an old figure that Eastern Grey Kangaroo males grow up to 60 kg but when I worked on EGKs near Canberra we weighed plenty that were over 70kg and two over 100 kg.
bufferzone
wrote:
2 Mar 2023
Thank you DonFletcher, The Camera behind it is at approx 1 Meter is there a method of actually placing a Height scale in the area? I am sure I can make one and as this seems a regular place for this fella and his wife I may get a more exacting Height picture with a Measurer, This photo was from a trail Camera so not a perfect Photo but definitely a big animal in Comparison to others I have seen and Photographed in the area, so I am surprised at the Height difference as his mate is also Tall although smaller than he is,
Location information
- Places Oakdale, NSW
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
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Featured bufferzone Southern Highlands NatureMapr Wallabia bicolor Kangaroos & Wallabies Mammals
Additional information
- Mixed Gender
- Dependent young Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Wallabia bicolor Scientific name
- Swamp Wallaby Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1338.8m Recorded at altitude
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