Training
No training is required to be involved Melbourne Water’s Frog Census. Check out the participation page for all necessary information on how to be involved.
The manager of Melbourne Water’s Frog Census may be available to attend your community’s meeting or event to speak about the Census, share ‘froggie facts’ and help you to recognise frog calls. Email frogs@melbournewater.com.au with any enquiries.
The best ways to learn to recognise frog species through their calls is to listen to recorded calls. Frog calls of Melbourne can be heard on the Frogs of Australia website.
Ed McNabb, a wildlife ecologist with more than 30 years experience of sound recording wildlife, has produced the CD ‘Frog Calls of Melbourne, an identification guide to the calls of Melbourne frogs’. The CD is available through Ed’s website.