Thread: Roadside wildlife

Originally Posted by XR500

A NZ Whistling tree frog found in the....wait for it..

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Behind the cistern of the Ross (west coast) public toilets

we released him close to some vegetation. Hopefully he doesn't feel the need to use a shitter of human proportions again

sorry chaps they are actually an aussie import
The southern brown tree frog (sometimes referred to as the whistling tree frog) is a small brown frog, being the smallest of the three Australian frog species which have become naturalised in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Originally hailing from South-eastern Australia, and Tasmania, it was deliberately introduced to Greymouth in 1875 by Mr W. Perkins,