Frogs
Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians. All Australian amphibians are frogs. There are about 4000 frog species worldwide and Australia has 208 frog species; many of these are endemic - that is, they are found nowhere else in the world. Frogs play a key role in many food webs, both as predators and as prey.
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From: Jodi Rowley
To: "fulcher@ozemail.com.au"
Cc: FrogIDResearch
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:28:34 +0000
Dear Sharon,
Thank you so much for your email! That is indeed a female Booroolong Frog – she looks like she has eggs too! How wonderful!
I’m cc-ing Gracie Liu, a team-member who’s currently conducting PhD research on Booroolong Frogs on the Central Tablelands not far from you. She’d be delighted to know you have them at your property, as I am! Part of her research is trying to understand why they have declined throughout their range, while closely related frog species haven’t. It would be very interesting indeed to see how healthy your population of Booroolong Frogs is- we hope that it is a stronghold for them!
Thank you so much for all your FrogID recordings too! I note that you recorded some frogs back in 2018 that we marked as the Eastern Stony Creek Frog (Litoria wilcoxii). We listened and listened to these submissions at the time and we concluded that they were most likely the Eastern Stony Creek Frog, but it’s incredibly difficult to tell these species apart by call (indeed the frogs themselves seem to get confused as there are hybrids of these two species!). Their calls need more work to distinguish, though! And there are very few audio recordings of Booroolong Frogs. If there’s any chance that you are able, it would be really helpful to us if you could record any Booroolong Frogs or Eastern Stony Creek Frogs and attach a photo of the calling frog if you can safely do. This would really help us solve the riddle of their calls. However, I understand that this is a bit of a challenge at times and may not be possible!
Thank you for caring about frogs, using FrogID, and sending along these photos!
Thanks again for getting in touch and please let me know if there’s any way I can assist you!
Cheers, Jodi
Dr Jodi Rowley
Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology | Australian Museum Research Institute & Centre for Ecosystem Science, BEES, UNSW Sydney.
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