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Citizen Science Reveals the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog Popping Up

Citizen Science Reveals the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog Popping Up

by Joeby Ragpa - Jul. 03, 2023
the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax)

Peoples using the FrogID app have helped reveal just how much the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax) is establishing populations outside its native range.

Thankfully, tens of thousands of people across Australia are already doing frog surveys across Australia, using the Australian Museum’s FrogID app! Simply by using the app to record calling frogs, they’ve already built an enormous database of frog records across the country! We used this amazing FrogID dataset to determine just where this frog was—were the already reported populations still there, and were they spreading? And are there any new places that this frog species popped up?

The Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog is a commonly encountered tree frog, native to eastern Australia. Whilst only a couple of centimetres in body length, it’s a bright apple-green colour and sits out on vegetation during the day, so is often spotted.

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