California Red-legged Frog (night)

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Title California Red-legged Frog (night)
Common Name California Red-legged Frog
Scientific Name Rana draytonii
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Ranidae
Genus Rana
Subject Amphibians; Places; Nature sounds
Spatial Coverage Marin County (Calif.); California
Frog Call Breeding Season: November-April
Creator Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://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
Date 2010-02-02
Type Sound
Format video/mp4
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 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 Vocalizations of California red-legged frogs
Photo Rights Management Photo copyright 2009, Gary Nafis, http://www.californiaherps.com/. All rights reserved
Note Recorded at 8 PM at the edge of a large marsh near a well-traveled road; frog creates a "moan" sound at approximately nine seconds into the audio file that is distinctive for the species in comparison to Rana aurora; elevation 39 feet; air temperature 47 degrees Fahrenheit; skies partly cloudy, winds calm to light; Sierran treefrogs calling in the background; some anthropogenic noise in background
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105364
Source File Recording Equipment Telinga Pro 6 Stereo DAT parabolic microphone to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate
ARK ark:/87278/s6q81sgz
Setname uu_wss
ID 1118958
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q81sgz
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