Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Ariz. and Nev.); Mohave County (Ariz.); Arizona
Frog Call
Breeding Season: November-June
Creator
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2008, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, Westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Contributors
Drake, Dana
Date
2008-03-20
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description
Frogs call in a narrow canyon at approximately 8 PM
Photo Rights Management
Photo copyright 2007, Dana Drake. All rights reserved
Note
Relict leopard frogs are considered "Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and are candidates for listing under the United States Endangered Species Act; their range is currently restricted to a few small areas in Nevada and Arizona; Air temperature was 19.8 degrees Celsius, winds were less than 2kmph, cloud cover was 0%, and the water temperature was 5 degrees Celsius; Recordings were made using Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones recording in an MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder using a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate; Local Time: 8:00 PM
