Frog Calls of Western Australia
| Desert Tree Frog | This frog makes a cackling call. |
| Glauert’s Froglet | The call is a long, hollow rattle, rather like the sound of a pea in a can. |
| Granite Froglet | The call, a ‘baa…baa…baa’, is high-pitched. |
| Green Bellied Froglet | A ‘tik tik tik tik’ sound is made. |
| Green Tree Frog | ‘Wark-wark-wark’. The call is very deep. |
| Guenther’s Toadlet | The call is a grating squelch. |
| Humming Frog | The low hum made by these frogs is only audible from close by. |
| Karri Frog | The call is a ‘tk tk tk tk’. |
| Magnificent Tree Frog | Has a slow, deep barking call. |
| Moaning Frog | The males call from their burrows in autumn, making a loud, low moan. |
| Motorbike Frog | In spring, this species calls from water, making a sound like a motorbike changing gears: ‘grr,grr,grr’. |
| Northern Dwarf Tree Frog | The call of this frog is a ‘reek,reek,reek’. |
| Northern Toadlets | Some species have a call consisting of one or more clicks. Others make a squelching call. |
| Orange Bellied Frog | Males make a series of short clicks, like the sound made by pulling your tongue from the roof of your mouth. The call is similar to that of the white-bellied frog,but there are only about 11 clicks in each burst (compared to about 15 in the white-bellied frog). The clicking is only just slow enough to count and changes with temperature; warmer frogs call faster. |
| Orange-Crowned Toadlet | A short, harsh ’sark’ is emitted. |
| Quacking Frog | The call is a loud ‘quack…quack…quack.’ |
| Rocket Frog | After one or two short notes, a long series of ‘wick, wick, wick’ sounds are made. |
| Roth’s Tree Frog | Roth’s tree frog makes a call similar to raucous laughter. |
| Sand Frog | The call a ‘put put’, is said to resemble the noise made by a small outboard motor. |
| Sandhill Frog | The species makes a squelching noise. |
| Sandplain Froglet | The call has been described by eminent biologist Bert Main as a ’squelch, rather like drawing a wet finder over a balloon.’ |
| Slender Tree Frog | Slender tree frogs emit a harsh grating screech, incorporating grunts. |
| Spotted Burrowing Frog | Spotted burrowing frogs make a rapid, high-pitched, repeated ‘coo’. This has been compared with the call of an owl. |
| Spotted-Thighed Frog | The call has been described by well known biologist Bert Main as ‘like the distant sound of wood being sawn’. |
| Sunset Frog | ‘Duk-duk’ Calling is strongest on the hottest days - totally unlike any other frog species in Western Australia! |
| Turtle Frog | Abrupt,deep croaks are made. |
| Walpole Frog | An incessant ‘tick,tick,tick’ is the call of the male Walpole frog trying to attrack a female whith which to mate. |
| Water Holding Frog | This has been described as a snoring ‘maw-w-w-w…maw-w-w-w’. |
| Western Banjo Frog | This frog makes an unmistakable loud, deep, explosive ‘bonk’. |
| White Bellied Frog | Males make a series of short clicks, each click like the sound made by pulling your tongue from the roof of your mouth. There are about 15 clicks in each burst. |
| Whooping Frog | Its call is a repetitive ‘woop woop’. |
| Yellow-flanked Burrowing Frog | The call is said to resemble the hoot of an owl. This is low-pitched and repeated slowly. |
Source: Frogs of Western Australia - What Frog is That?, Bush Books, Department of Conservation and Land Management WA
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