Summary: Large emu on a small rock located in the scrub near the Kariong Rifle Range.

Hidden in thick scrub near the Kariong Rifle Range on the Central Coast is a large, solitary emu. It was first recorded by Ian Sim in the 1960s, and later by McCarthy:

Poorly shaped fat bodied emu, in a feeding pose, with its head down and body parallel with the ground – short neck with pointed beak, no eyes, broad humped body and rounded rump, convex belly, incurved leg bifurcated at the end.

The emu has fairly deep grooves, and takes up most of the small rock platform.

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