Litoria verreauxii verreauxii

Whistling Tree-frog at Forde, ACT

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	Litoria verreauxii verreauxii	12 Jan 2017	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	11 Jan 2017	jmhatley

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Two different species of frog found in our yard in Forde (Blizzard Circuit). The plain brown frog is quite common in our yard although this particular one was very pale compared others we have seen. These frogs live around the house and in our pond in the back yard. The small green and brown stripped frog was seen for the first time yesterday (10 Jan 17) and appeared from under a large ground cover grevillea, again in our back yard. Would be interested to know what species of frog they both are. Regards John H

8 comments

ibaird wrote:

12 Jan 2017

Dare I suggest Litoria verreauxii alpina (first image)? See Cogger (2014) 7th edn. p.193.

AaronClausen wrote:

12 Jan 2017

Hi jmhatley, thanks for these excellent sightings. They are fantastic. Could I please bug you to create another separate sighting. So that each image has it's own sighting. Each sighting is meant to be for each species if that makes sense. Where as you have 2 species of frogs here within the same single sighting. So we need to separate them etc so that each sighting can be confirmed as a different species etc. Thanks heaps.

AaronClausen wrote:

12 Jan 2017

PS - re second image, i think is a Peron's Tree Frog??

wombey wrote:

12 Jan 2017

The pale Frog is Litoria peronii, the pale colour is of no significance, they can darken or lighten at will and are common in the Canberra suburbs. The other greenish one is Litoria verreauxii, also found in the Canberra region although the greenish colour usually pertains to the subspecies alpine. Whether this is local colour variation or an alpine individual relocated is problematic. Here again is an example of two animals known to be different and posted in the same record.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

12 Jan 2017

Thanks Guys I have created separate records - John H - look forward to your future sightings, with one species per post.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

13 Jan 2017

John Hatley said "We have lived in the northern end of Forde since 2013 (56 Blizzard Cct) and one of the first projects I took on was to build a small creek and pond in the backyard.... Directly across the road from us is the major creek line that has been re-aligned along Mulligans Flat Road, I had always assumed our visiting frogs had made the short trip across the road as I offer a permanent water source, unlike the creek.

Given this the form of the whistling tree frog seems to be of interest and worth further investigation

jmhatley wrote:

13 Jan 2017

Same story as for the sighting of the Peron's Tree-Frog in that we have lived in the northern end of Forde since 2013 (56 Blizzard Cct) and one of the first projects I took on was to build a small creek and pond in the backyard. Directly across the road from us is the major creek line that has been re-aligned along Mulligans Flat Road, I had always assumed our visiting frogs had made the short trip across the road as I offer a permanent water source, unlike the creek. However, this sighting is the first for us of the Whistling Tree-Frog and was quite unexpected as I was cutting the lawn in our backyard when this little guy jumped out from under a large ground cover grevillea I have growing. So no idea where he came from and I do not recall having heard any different frog calls at night, but given we now know of the new species in our yard and we'll keep an ear out.

GeoffRobertson wrote:

13 Jan 2017

Great work. GeoffR

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