Oh yes I hear it now...I was comparing Barking Tree Frog and Green
Tree Frog, not Green Frog....sorry. Thanks Robin and Walt!
Dnany
--- In Walter Knapp <> wrote:
>
> Posted by: "Danny Meltzer"
> > Robin,
> >
> > a cursory listen to Walter's site makes me think mine are indeed
> > Barking Tree Frogs...
> >
> > Walter if you care to officiate...feel free
>
> Sorry Danny, I agree with Robin. I'd not listened to your recordings
due
> to file size but took a listen to the recording in question just
now, or
> part of it anyway. It's Green Frogs - Rana clamitans. It's their
> location or territorial call depending on how you interpret it. Not a
> breeding call, they give it almost year round down here. They are more
> or less saying "I'm here, this is my spot". Only the very beginning of
> my ID clip on this frog has this call, the rest is breeding calls.
>
> Barking Treefrogs where you recorded this would have been a find, about
> the only area they have been reported in Maryland is on the eastern
> shore along the Delaware line about half way down that line as far as I
> know. They have also been reported in northern Delaware, and a couple
> counties in S Virginia. I'm not a great fan of disjunct populations
like
> that and I suspect some searching can connect those dots and also
> connect them to the main body in N. Carolina and southward.
>
> I expanded the known Barking Treefrog territory in GA greatly. I'm
> pretty sure they got over the fall line into the Piedmont due to
logging
> on the fall line. (provided the small pools they like for breeding) I
> documented them over quite a bit of the Piedmont. Barking treefrog
> calls, once you know them, are very distinctive. I can pick them out
> just by the faint pulse of their call rhythm in the background ambiance
> at over a mile. I've gotten a identifiable recording of them with the
> Telinga at that distance. But most people have to be much, much closer.
>
> They do not occur in every pond, just certain ones are blessed with
> these frogs. Not completely sure why. The end of the clip I have up in
> the frog pages is the most dense Barking TF calling I've ever found.
The
> pond, which was hidden sounded paved with calling barking treefrogs.
And
> it was a unknown location until I reported it and added another GA
> county to their list.
>
> You do have to get out well into the night to hunt them. They often
> don't start until it's been dark for a while. I suspect that's why they
> are often missed, people quit listening too early.
>
> Walt
>
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