Sierran treefrogs at Point Reyes National Seashore
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Common Name: Sierran Treefrog
Scientific Name: Pseudacris sierra
Date: 2010-02-02
Time: night
Creator: Rice, Jeff
Description: Sierran treefrogs call from a marsh at Point Reyes National Seashore
Notes: Recorded at Olema Marsh; temperature was approximately 45 degrees Fahrenheit; skies partly cloudy with high humidity and low-hanging fog under a partially full moon; road noise and other anthropogenic sounds in background; these frogs are commonly referred to as Pacific Treefrogs, but the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles has given the species in this region the name Sierran Treefrog (Pseudacris sierra), while the Center for North American Herpetology refers to them as the Sierra Chorus Frog (Pseudacris sierra); scientists have divided Pacific Treefrogs into three distinct species, P. sierra, P. regilla and P. hypochondriaca, that occur in different geographic regions
Location: Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.); California
Recording Equipment: Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones in a stereo MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate
Duration: 00:09:42
Audio Rights: Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Image Rights: Publisher: Flickr Creator: James Maughn Provider: iNaturalist.org, http://www.inaturalist.org
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