1 Eastern Banjo Frog at Pambula Preschool
Identification history
| Unidentified | 3 Mar 2019 | libbygleeson |
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Sorry about cutting the head off the last photo, I am new to this and not sure how to delete it. Hope this photo is better and someone can identify it for us.
5 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
4 Mar 2019
Hi Libby, I'll try and paste your comment in from the headless sighting before deleting it, about where the frog was found. My best guess is the Pobblebonk or Eastern Banjo Frog, on account of the lack of any obvious stripes on the back. The thick pale glandular stripe on the upper lip suggests one of the Limnodynastes species, and the only species common down here has the dorsal stripes which this doesn't (that's Limno. peronii, known to Max and I as the "tock frog" because its call sounds like a small wooden mallet striking a bit of wood). The pobblebonk has a more resonant call, but otherwise similar, hence the banjo reference. I'll leave the confirmation to someone who knows frogs better than me, but if it is a pobblebonk it's quite interesting because we don't have any sightings of it yet, or photos, though it was already on the ALCW frog list, so obviously someone thought there was a chance it would be around.
JackieMiles
wrote:
4 Mar 2019
"Found in our mud patch at Pambula Pre School by some very excited 4 year olds".
Hi again Libby, It seems you will have to delete the redundant sighting yourself. We tried but don't get the edit button displayed. You should be able to find an edit button upper RHS of the screen if you look up that sighting again, click on it and it will give you the option to delete it. Make sure you delete the right one, though, still called unidentified frog, not this one called Limno dumerilii (TBC).
Hi again Libby, It seems you will have to delete the redundant sighting yourself. We tried but don't get the edit button displayed. You should be able to find an edit button upper RHS of the screen if you look up that sighting again, click on it and it will give you the option to delete it. Make sure you delete the right one, though, still called unidentified frog, not this one called Limno dumerilii (TBC).
KerriLee
wrote:
4 Mar 2019
Welcome, and well done Libby! We have several folk good with frogs, and so we should get a confirmation for you soon. If need be, we can call on help from an frog expert in Canberra.
By the way, the kids might enjoy making sound recordings of the frog calls. This is a really good way to ID them, and you can easily make a recording just by using the video function on your phone. If you do, we can give advice later on converting the video into audio-only for upload. Cheers again.
By the way, the kids might enjoy making sound recordings of the frog calls. This is a really good way to ID them, and you can easily make a recording just by using the video function on your phone. If you do, we can give advice later on converting the video into audio-only for upload. Cheers again.
libbygleeson
wrote:
5 Mar 2019
Thanks for your help Jackie, managed to delete the headless one. It was a shame we couldn't get a few more photos, but the frog was pretty keen to be released. Love the idea its a banjo frog! Libby
JackieMiles
wrote:
17 Apr 2019
I forwarded the sighting to Steve Sass who is way more of a frog expert than me, and he agrees it can only be L. dumerilii.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.884650-36.931220
- Altitude 22.2m
- Survey points Pambula Preschool
- Places Pambula, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Feb 2019 10:53 AM Recorded on
- libbygleeson Recorded by
Species information
- Limnodynastes dumerilii Scientific name
- Eastern Banjo Frog Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1550.52m Recorded at altitude
- 104 images trained Machine learning
