Know Your Wildlife!

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Test your skills each month with MCCG’s Wildlife Identification Quiz!

You’ll find Know Your Wildlife towards the back of every month’s The Local Bulletin.  Answers can be found by searching in the MCCG Catchment Field Guides.

We will provide the answers to each quiz right here in the first week of every month!

Here is the March quiz:

Can you identify these three frog species?

Which of these frogs has a call that has been likened to a 1-second burst from a dental drill?

(answers below the photo set)

1.Photo by Paul Campbell

2. Photo by Ian Muirhead

3. Photo by Ed Frazer

 

ANSWERS:

Question 1.

  1. Bleating Tree Frog (Litoria dentata)
  2. Graceful Tree Frog (Litoria gracilenta)
  3. Broad-palmed Rocket Frog (Litoria latopalmata)

Question 2.

The Bleating Tree Frog has a call that has been likened to a 1-second burst from a dental drill!