A native of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania, the brown whistling frog is the smallest of the three introduced frogs. Eggs are laid under water and hatch into free-swimming tadpoles, unlike the native species. Its call is a familiar sound on the South Island’s West Coast, as well as on Stewart Island and in wet areas of the lower North Island.
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Department of Conservation
Reference:
10036453
Photograph by D. Garrick
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Tukunga
We have these wee frogs
Jacqui Moreton (not verified)
03 o Hepetema 2012
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