Banjo Frog

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Photograph taken at frog display Whiteman Park in August.

Banjo frogs are a burrowing frog. In arid areas where it is hotter they will burrow for the warmer months. Males are up to 75mm long from snout to vent. Males have thicker more powerful forearms than females and a dark throat and nuptial pads during breeding season.

What do they eat?

Banjo frogs probably eat low flying insects and other insects found around the wetlands. It has a broad tongue not long like some of the other frogs.

Booragoon Lake Perth Western Australia. This is an area where the banjo frogs like to hang out. This is not a solid island but water plants that are attached to the ground and growing.

This photo was taken at Booragoon lake on August 27. You can see the foam nest with the very young frog spawn in it. There were also tadpoles swimming close to the bank.

Whiteman Park frog display Perth.

I have also heard Banjo frogs at Herdsman Lake Perth in September.
Thomson Lake at the south east corner in November. Go through gates.
Bibra Lake in Perth in July.
Bannister Creek City of Canning in August.
Great Southern Hwy "The Lakes" near the intersection of the Great Eastern Hwy in June.
Lake Leschenaultia near Mt Helena east of Perth in July. I waded out into the lake and was standing right over the top of them but could not see them. Gates shut at night easy to walk in.
Lake Monger just north of Perth city in November.
Possibly a Banjo frog at Piney Lakes off Leech Hwy in Melville in November.
Outside Avon National Park on Morangup Rd. Avon Park gates shut at night. Camping available.
Culbin Nature Reserve in the wheatbelt in October.
Glenforest Perth in September.

Click to hear the natural pauses between calls.

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'FrogWatch' Western Australian Museum

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