Corroboree Frog
by Tara and Marnie
Description
This frog has bright yellow stripes and black stripes on its back, while on their tummies they have black, white and yellow blotches. The adults can grow up to 2.5-3cm long and their call is a short 'squelch' sound.
Distribution
The Southern Corroboree Frog is limited to sphagnum bogs of the northern snowy mountains, a strip of the Maragle range in the north-west and throughout Jagungal in the south of NSW. These places are entirely within the Kosciuszko National Park.
Habitat and Ecology
The frogs feed mainly on black ants. The summer breeding areas are in pools and seepages in sphagnum bogs, wet tussock grasslands and wet heath piles.
Threats
Threats to these frogs include damage to their breeding sites caused by feral pigs and horses, diseases such as the chytrid fungus and climate change.
Recovery Strategies
Priority strategies are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover this threatned species. We need to undertake off-site breeding of tadpoles and frogs to release back into the wild. We also need protect breeding sites from damage by pigs and horses.
Two Men on the Great Divide: Corroboree Frog
Photos are from Wikimedia Commons.
Information is from http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspecies/