I don't want to start an argument, particularly when I hardly know one frog
call from another, but have you considered Limnodynastes tasmaniensis (Spotted
marsh frog)? Of course there may be several different species of frog in that
drain where the Swift Parrots are, but last Saturday I was there with someone
(a former ACT ranger) who remarked that that was the frog species we could hear.
Just thought I'd throw that in....sorry ;)
Regards
Frank Antram
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Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 14:55:00 +1000
To: "Steve Holliday"
Subject: Re: RFI swift parrots [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Thanks Steve.
> Re frogs, they were probably the variable territorial calls of the common
> froglet which I mistook for a possible whistling tree frog. I have all the
> common local frog calls on my mobile and the call I heard seemed closest to
> the whistling tree frog.
> I hadn't heard that particular call before.
>
> Thanks again
>
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> swift parrots [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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> 5 Swifties at the site this morning, about 1130. Feeding in foliage of a
> Yellow Box, presumably on lerps. Re Cons question from the other day about
> flowering eucs, the only flowers I have noticed near the site were a small
> number on a single Yellow Box and I haven't seen Swifties in that
> particular
> tree. They are more likely to find flowering eucs (eg leucoxylon) in nearby
> suburbia.
>
> Re frogs, apart from one or two little calls that were probably Plains
> Froglet, only Common Froglets calling from the drain. These were short,
> territorial calls, and quite variable. I didn't hear their typical, longer
> creeka-creeka advertising call. I haven't heard Whistling Tree Frog at the
> site but they could well be here, they are present at Gooroo and Mulligans,
> and I have recorded them around Mt Ainslie, although not recently. They
> don't seem to call a lot during the day.
>
> Re tree species present, I think Apple Box and Yellow Box are by far the
> most numerous, with numbers of others next to the reservoir that have
> obviously been planted at some stage eg cinerea, albens, nicholli?, and
> others I don't recognize. The goniocalyx may also have been planted.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Dabb
> Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 8:08 AM
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> Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Re: RFI swift parrots [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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> Marnix - I think we settled after some discussion that the apparent
> (centre-stage) Apple Box is a Bundy E goniocalyx. Steve Holliday tells me
> that the calling frog is a Common Froglet g
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> Well I popped out at lunchtime today and there they were. At least 6 birds
> roosting in an Apple Box by the drain at the north end of the reservoir.
> They dropped down to drink at one point and were occasionally chased by a
> Noisy Miner but not far.
> As I stood there a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles soared overhead displaying
> beautifully just above the trees.
>
> On a different subject can someone enlighten me as to what species frog I
> keep hearing calling from the eastern end of the drain. My best guess is
> its a Whistling Tree Frog or possibly another Litoria species. Quite a few
> froglets were calling today as well.
>
> Cheers
>
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