Background information:
Australian animals, tree hollows and nestboxes
Research topics:
Nankeen kestrel
Striated pardalote
Eastern pygmy possum
Green tree frog
Microbats general
Batboxes in
Organ Pipes National Park
Gould's wattled bat
Chocolate wattled bat
Large-footed myotis
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Frogbox - green tree frog |
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| Green tree frogs, as the name suggests, live in trees, or at least they used to before a lot of the trees were replaced by downpipes. This little fellow was found in a drum-design owl box in a park about 40m from a designated frog-breeding area. Without any natural hollows in the area, and little litter on the ground, it must have been the best she could find. The box was about 6 metres above the ground. |
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We have made a few frogboxes as described below, although few have yet been erected and none long enough to prove anything. The boxes are made from a 250mm length of 90mm PVC stormwater pipe mounted vertically. Both ends are capped with standard PVC end fittings; the base glued on and the top pushed on with a smear of Vaseline. The end caps have a raised ridge around the edge so that the lid traps rainwater. A 7mm hole is drilled in the lid to allow the rainwater to run into the pipe. A 7mm overflow hole is drilled in one side so that the pipe holds about 25mm of water. A horizontal entry slot 75mm x 20mm is cut a little way above the overflow hole, at the back of the box. The box is positioned about 65mm out from the tree to allow access to the entry slot. |
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