Head out to the backyard, wet parklands or into the bush and keep your eyes and ears out for a croaky creature.
Frogs are all around us. You might not see them, but you can definitely hear them.
This can change irreversibly if frogs disappear from the ecosystem, explains Jodi Rowley, curator of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Biology with the Australian Museum."They eat a lot of insects and are eaten by a lot of things.Peron's tree frogs are commonly seen in houses and in letterboxes.They like backyards — especially ones with a small pond in them.
Water bodies are the easiest places to hear frogs and so patches of bushland on council land or in national parks where there is a creek, stream, or pond are the best places to go.When can you see them?They also tend to come out after rain.The calls you hear are male frogs that tend to hang out in those wet areas and call to attract females.The common eastern froglett, for example, lives in ditches by the side of the road or flooded parklands and sound like a cricket.
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