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This April, engage with nature in your neighbourhood as part of Frog Month Victoria – Autumn.
Anyone across Victoria, Australia can participate – simply record the sounds of calling frogs at your local wetland, pond, stream, soak or farm dam using Melbourne Water’s Frog Census App, then upload.
The information collected will help us to understand where different frog species are living across the state, and will contribute to the conservation of Victoria’s amazing frog species.
Feature species
We would love to receive recordings of any and all frogs calling around Victoria throughout the month of April.
However, for Frog Month Victoria – Autumn, we we are featuring the threatened Bibron’s toadlet (Pseudophryne bibronii). Males of this species call from terrestrial nests close to swamps, streams or soaks, and this is where the female frog will lay her eggs. The tadpoles start to develop inside the eggs in the nest, guarded by the male frog, and finish their development when the nest is flooded and the eggs are washed into a nearby water body.
Bibron’s toadlet has a broad distribution in Victoria from the north-east through central parts to the south-west, with some populations also known from East Gippsland. Populations appear to have declined in recent decades, and the species is listed as Endangered in Victoria.
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Small Actions – Big Impact
More information
Frog Month Victoria will provide Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) across Victoria with a specialised frog-monitoring program to serve both their volunteers and the scientific community, led by the state’s EstuaryWatch and WaterWatch programs. This new program will deliver comprehensive support and communication tools for CMAs and citizen scientists, while also providing timely, up-to-date reports to drive important conservation efforts.
The project launched in October 2024 and will run for three years. It has partnered with Professor Kirsten Parris, a frog ecologist from the University of Melbourne, and with Melbourne Water, which has made arrangements for the use of its Frog Census App and for extra resourcing to identify the frogs recorded. Melbourne Water will also provide raw data from the App throughout the project.
Report from Frog Month – Spring and gearing up for Autumn: webinar
Wednesday, 19 March, 2025 18:00-19:00 AEDT — Online event