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I couldn't upload this without adding a photo but this spotting is about the video clip. The photo is from the same park.This is a short video clip I took years ago for a strange sound I was hearing in the Philippine rainforest. It sounds like a machine gun in the forest.
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I recored this in Bulusan Volcano national park.
Thanks Karen for taking the time to research this, I appreciate. I don't doubt your contacts that it is a frog, but do you have any links where I can hear it?
I agree with the spotter's description, "It sounds like a machine gun in the forest" because it was indeed that. It is not a frog's or any wildlife's sound. A fluke though :)
All my contacts agree: it's a frog. The Director of The Philippine Eagle Foundation suggests its a "guentheri" frog. I looked it up.
http://philbreo.lifedesks.org/node/1032
OK... I've sent the link to several people at the Philippine Eagle Foundation, several of my terrestrially-inclined Bio classmates, but am still tracking a contact for my former Prof. Hopefully someone will chime in! :)
(Now see what you've done... completely distracted me from my work...lol!)
I may be off, but for some reason I'm thinking "bird", and not frog.... I'll send a link for this video to Silliman University's Bio department. There's a professor there that is really good at things like this. (Silliman is my Alma Mater, and is in Negros Oriental in the Philippines..)
Acoustic ecology of another kind :) Not the norm though.
I am from Bulusan. I live just around 3 km from the said site. I adore the beauty of the park and its immense biodiversity.
I appreciate everyones input on the quest to ID this. I'm still not sure. @Annvan, that is a great site with all the frog calls. My cat really seemed to be fascinated by it too!@achmmad, you're right some calls in that clip do sound a bit familiar.
@Cammie, thanks a lot! I just went to school for Horticulture and got lucky getting a great seasonal job.
Just to complicate matters (haha!) there are some toads which also have machine gun-like calls...
I heard a small part that similar: http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/amphi... ... Woodfrog, but not from Philippines.
It does sound different from the " Spotted grass Frog" The idea that it could be a frog is awesome!
Wow, thanks for the incredible web, Ann!. I think its 'impossible' that they migrated from Australia, since Australia is a Gondwanan Land and the Phillipines formed long after and with so far distance, just note that amphibian are very sensitive due to their moist skin. Cross the sea? And, the sound above are louder than spotted grass, may be come from the same family, I don't know. Or, a sounds effect (I'm not a musician)? I think not, too. :)
Yes, we need a Philippines version of this amazing website: http://spider.cbit.uq.edu.au/anu/frogs.h... (Click on several recordings together and you have a 'frog orchestra'!!)
The Spotted Grass Frog sounds pretty close to your call... Migrated from Australia??
Its late enough for bird, I though. It's not tokay gecko's sound, as what have been discussed, I'm sure about this one. And the question is, where can we get Philippines frog 'sound album'?
Looks like Jurassic Park! No clue on the noise, but very interesting! Your stuff is amazing, how do I get a job like yours!? Lol
Thanks achmmad and Lars. It could be a frog, no one has suggested that yet. If I could only hear what you have heard achmmad! I think I took this photo in late afternoon, if I remember correctly, around 3 - 4pm.
At what time and condition you this sound recorded? - after rain? morning or afternoon? My opinion possibly won't work if this sound recorded in the morning, almost sounds in the morning come from bird, everybody know about that also :D ...
I'd assume a frog call, too.
There seems to be more resonance volume (sound box) releasing the sound than in a bird call. And I think it is not the typical reverb of the woods making this.
Eh there, how about frog song? Just a little bit similar to Rana nicobariensis .... I can't give an example now, but I've heard several times.
I will add my wishes of good luck! The picture caught my eye (it's fabulous!), but the mystery kept my attention. I hope someone solves it!
Spotted on Aug 6, 2011
Submitted on Aug 6, 2011
