Interesting recording of the song of the Eastern Gray Tree Frog and cricket frogs in a drainage ditch at Riverbend Forest Preserve, Champaign County, Illinois, USA.
The additional sounds in the background are made by crickets, geese on the lake, a bird in the woods and American toads in the distance…
There’s an interesting and timely piece of frog news on the BBC News Website today warning would-be frog conservationists about the dangers of a decades old do-it-yourself method of rehousing frogs by moving frogspawn from pond to pond…
Conservationists are urging people not to carry out “frogspawn-swapping” this spring because of problems they say it can create for the pond environment.
Wildlife-lovers in the UK often donate frogspawn from their ponds to others to give frogs a potential new home.
But the Froglife charity said this could lead to the spread of invasive plants and harmful diseases.
Source: BBC News
Thirteen rare finger nail-sized frogs have been born for the first time on one of New Zealand’s main islands.
The Maud Island frogs were found in the frog enclosure at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington and have been taken to Victoria University.
When they have grown they will be released into the wild.
Source: Stuff.co.nz
Check out the stunning gallery at La Repubblica
There was some amazing footage on the Science and Nature pages of BBC News yesterday showing the rare Panamanian golden frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time. In fact, shortly after recording the footage for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood (which is presented by Sir David Attenborough), the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus - the whole species is now extinct in Panama and this recording shows their unusual behaviour for both the first and last time in their natural habitat.
Meet La Raganella or Hyla Arborea… better known as the Italian tree frog!
I came home one evening to my little house in Le Marche, Italy, to find this Italian tree frog on my front door handle.
