Green Tree Frog (Litoria Caerulea)
The most common, and loudest of the frogs that have been known to frequent our backyard
They have a very distinctive call and are particularly vocal during periods of heavy rain. Green frogs love hanging out on the house steps and windowsills and occasionally in drainpipes or other hollow steel structures, needless to say this amplifies their call from loud to seriously deafening.
Does this amplified brawk-brawk-brawk attract the ladies?
As you can hear, it s not a quiet frog, and this one was in a tree not a drainpipe.
What's in a name?
Litoria describes where in the scientific classification of animals this one lies. Roughly speaking, Litoria means it is an Australasian Tree Frog with a horizontal iris.
and Caerulea is latin for dark blue, WTF?
John White was a surgeon who came to Australia with the first fleet, he documented a number of Australian animals, the tree frogs however he just dropped into a preservative solution and sent back to England. On the long journey back to England the preservative that he had used leached out all the yellow pigment from the green frog leaving the pickled specimen looking distinctly blue.