About this minute
- Title
- Pobblebonk Frog
- Recordist
- Vicki Powys
- Contributor
- British Library Wildlife Sound Archive
- Year
- 1992 – 1993
- Location
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collections
- Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Field Recordings , Calls , Calls , Frog , Frog , Natural world , Natural World , Pitch
Collection 1 #14
You just heard the sound of Pobblebonk Frogs! Pobblebonk Frogs live in Australia and New Zealand. They are famous for their call, which sounds like the ‘bonk’ of a banjo string being plucked. In fact, they are sometimes called Banjo Frogs because of it. It’s the male frogs who make the sound, and when one…