banjo frog
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Behaviour: The Banjo Frog is active most of the year.

Banjo frog may refer to either of two frogs in the Myobatrachidae family:

It is similar to the Eastern banjo frog, from which it can be distinguished by the red thigh colouration.

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The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog.

Comments: The Eastern Banjo Frog is a common inhabitant of wetlands and rivers.

Endemic frogs found within the area include the quacking frog, the western banjo frog and the humming frog.

In Western Australia the western banjo frog, Limnodynastes dorsalis, is common around Perth.

The groin area is reddish to bright red, this distinguishes the western species from the otherwise similar Limnodynastes dumerilii (Eastern Banjo frog).

Once I saw a banjo frog swimming in a lake and I also saw some tadpoles swimming with their mother in a lake.

A very large species the Giant Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes interiais) vary in colour from fawn brown to pale yellow, with a few black markings.

The informal names for this species are Western Banjo Frog, Pobblebonk, Sand frog and Bullfrog.

Call: The call of the Pobblebonk or Banjo frog is as its name suggests, an "explosive bonk" similar to a banjo string being plucked!

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Colloquially referred to as the "banjo frog", the primary breeding call is an explosive "clunk," or "cloink" frequently repeated several times in succession, but less powerfully each time.

In Western New South Wales, the giant banjo frog, Limnodynastes interioris, is a similar species that tends to inhabit more arid areas than Limnodynastes dumerilii.

Spring and summer are the noisiest seasons with choruses of frogs, spring peepers, pig frogs, squirrel frogs, narrow mouthed toads and banjo frogs.

The Northern banjo frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae) is a species of ground-dwelling burrowing frog native to eastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, Australia.

The Giant Banjo Frog, Giant Bullfrog, or Great Bullfrog (Limnodynastes interioris) is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family.

The eastern banjo frog, common eastern froglet and even the now endangered growling grass frog have been seen and heard in the new wetlands and around Kororoit Creek, particularly in Cairnlea.

Kororoit Creek is also home to the Eastern Banjo Frog, Common Eastern Froglet and even the endangered Growling Grass Frog and Striped Legless Lizard.

The Eastern Banjo Frog, Common Eastern Froglet and even the now endangered Growling Grass Frog have been seen and heard in the new wetlands and in Kororoit Creek.

HOBART: If you're travelling through Tasmania and hear a banjo-like 'bong-bong' from ponds, lagoons or dams - then you're listening to the eastern banjo frog, otherwise known as the pobblebonk frog.

Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dorsalis) The following are photographs of a Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dorsalis) found on Cheyne Beach Road east of Albany in April 2003.

Banjo Frog Studio is a twenty four track digital recording studio, consisting of 24 tracks of Alesis Adat, SMPTE time coded together by a Macintosh Power PC running 96 tracks of Notator Logic.

Across the lake a giant bull frog began to drum.

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Common Indian toad and bull frog are the various others traced in the area.

Volunteers are needed for programs such as bird counts and bull frog monitoring.

Professor Bull Frog discovered a strange tree, and called his comrades.

Other causes included introduced plants and fish, bull frogs, disease, and environmental contaminants.

From somewhere in the distance came the harsh, discordant sound of bull frogs croaking.

Wolves, bull frogs, deer, mosquitos, and wild game were commonplace.

Terrestrial alien species of concern include the bull frog (Rana catesbeiana).

It was full of green turtles and bull frogs, whistling blue fish, and carp.

(Lonely bull frogs get so loud that a neighbor down the street drained her pond.

When traveling to certain habitats, one of the children is transformed into an animal, e.g. Arnold becomes a bull frog in the swamp.

Bull frogs are voracious predators and will consume frogs smaller than themselves.

As he looked down, he spied a bull frog on the edge of the rerouted brook.

In particular, there have been no studies on the effects of introduced bull frogs on suckers in the study area.

Several species have been introduced, including rainbow trout, bull frogs, and domestic ducks and geese.

De Bull frog mighty mad dat day.

His codename was 'Bull Frog' in secret communications.

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A fat, pompous, ostentatious settler in our neighbourhood they called Muckakee, "the bull frog."

Professor Bull Frog (nephew of the late explorer) said he believed the ridge was the wall that inclosed the earth.

He brought live specimens for the children to examine and touch - salamanders, bull frog, and snakes - which was very exciting.

Both the non-native bull frog and the green frog are voracious predators of the smaller native species.

Bull frogs have been reared in two trials on a live soldier fly larvae and pelleted feed mixture.

Eugenia was saying, "In your next incarnation I am sure you will appear as a bull frog, Danny!"

It also has a musical, resonant "plonk" call and is also called a pobblebonk.

Breeding: The Pobblebonk breeds in warm months.

Pobblebonk may refer to:

In the dry woodland and sclerophyll forest the most frequent frogs are the pobblebonk and common eastern froglet.

The frog is also called the pobblebonk after its distinctive "bonk" call, which is likened to a banjo string being plucked.

There is red-orange or scarlet markings in the thigh and flanks, which gives this species it other common name, the Scarlet-sided Pobblebonk.

Description: The Pobblebonk is a large reddish brown to golden frog which is covered in bold black patches over its back and hindlimbs.

In Queensland, the scarlet-sided pobblebonk, Limnodynastes terraereginae, is a small fat frog with distinctive orange or red irregular markings.

If you have a book on Australian frogs, have a look at the following species: Scarlet-sided Pobblebonk (Limnodynastes terrareginae)

The informal names for this species are Western Banjo Frog, Pobblebonk, Sand frog and Bullfrog.

Call: The call of the Pobblebonk or Banjo frog is as its name suggests, an "explosive bonk" similar to a banjo string being plucked!

Not to be confused with the Great Bullfrog, the Pobblebonk has a mottled belly whereas the bullfrog has a yellow-orange belly.

Species such as Litoria moorei (Motorbike frog) and Limnodynastes dorsalis (Pobblebonk) are very common and well known, while others are restricted to particular habitats in their distribution range.

Recent habitat conservation work has resulted in some wildlife returning to the creek, including the pobblebonk frog around the Strathmore Secondary College, and nankeen night heron in the upper catchment.

Distribution and habitat: The Pobblebonk frog is found throughout the Perth area and the entire south-west of WA, from just south of Shark Bay to near Esperance.

HOBART: If you're travelling through Tasmania and hear a banjo-like 'bong-bong' from ponds, lagoons or dams - then you're listening to the eastern banjo frog, otherwise known as the pobblebonk frog.

Specimens of the pobblebonk (Limnodynastes dorsalis) and the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) were collected from the Houtman Abrolhos during the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition of 1913 and 1915, but no amphibians have been recorded on the islands since that time.

Five species of frog call the creek home, these are the Common Eastern Froglet, the Spotted Marsh Frog, the Striped Marsh Frog, the Eastern or Pobblebonk Frog and the Southern Brown or Ewing's Tree Frog.