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Endangered Kroombit Tinker Frog Bred in Captivity for First Time Official Newsletter of the Queensland Frog Society Inc. Summer 2020-21 www.qldfrogs.asn.au | questions [at] qldfrogs.asn.au | /qldfrogsociety | @qldfrogs ENdaNgErEd KroombIt tINKEr FrOg brEd IN captIvIty FOr FIrSt tImE aFtEr 20 yEarS Inga Stünzner and Paul Culliver | ABC News Culliver Stünzner and Paul Inga The first metamorphosed Kroombit tinker frog in captivity after almost two decades of trying. Credit: M. Vella fter two decades of trial and error, a team of sci- hatchling. entists has finally bred the Kroombit tinker frog in “We’ve had our first tiny metamorph – a recently trans- captivity in the hopes of preventing its extinction. A formed tadpole – emerge from the tank,” Dr Meyer said. The frog is thought to number 200 at best and is found The largely nocturnal Kroombit tinker frog is difficult to only in small patches of rainforest at Kroombit Tops Na- tional Park, a plateau about 70 kilometres south-west of Gladstone in central Queensland. Dr. Ed Meyer, from the Queensland Frog Society, says the breeding plan was first hatched in the early 2000s when he and others became aware of the frog’s decline. There was little the team could do until they had the sup- port of a zoo, and in 2008 the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctu- ary on the Gold Coast came on board with a dedicated frog-breeding facility. A captive Kroombit Tinker frog with eggs (red circle). It was then another 12 years of trial and error before this Credit: M.Vella 1 FROGSHEET - Summer 2020 EXEcUtIvE cOmmIttEE arEa cOOrdINATOrS breed because it is secretive and can be located only by cies, including the Eungella tinker frog. its distinctive call that sounds like someone tapping a PATRON - Dr Glen Ingram ASHGROVE “We’re planning on raising our metamorph Kroom- glass bottle. Jenny Holdway – Ph: 3366 1868 bit tinker frogs through to adulthood and eventually PRESIDENT - Ashley Keune Email: qldfrogs [at] bigpond.net.au “We’ve been looking for spawn and tadpoles since the release the captive-bred adults into the wild,” Dr Meyer Email: president [at] qldfrogs.asn.au BRIBIE ISLAND/CABOOLTURE mid-1990s, and despite intensive searches through the said. VICE PRESIDENT - Ray Benfer Pauline Fitzgibbon 2000s, we failed to find Email: fitztho01 [at] tpg.com.au It could take up to two Email: vicepresidents [at] qldfrogs.asn.au any,” Dr Meyer said. BRISBANE CENTRAL years before the re- SECRETARY - Jenny Holdway Stefan Durtschi – Ph: 3891 6853 The team finally had cently emerged froglet is Ph: 07 3366 1868 Email: comlab [at] optusnet.com.au a successful spawning ready to breed, and the Email: secretary [at] qldfrogs.asn.au BROOKFIELD with the small number team will hang on to a TREASURER - Jennifer Singfield Phil Bird - Email: frogphil [at] gmail.com of frogs they had in small number. Email: treasurer [at] qldfrogs.asn.au BUNDABERG captivity, which allowed “Female tinker frogs are David Flack - Email: litoria.chloris82 [at] gmail.com them to observe the EVENTS & INITIATIVES COORDINATOR very difficult to locate eggs and tadpoles of this Jono Hooper CHERMSIDE in the wild because James Hansen – Mob: 0427 827 443 species for the first time. Email: events_initiatives [at] qldfrogs.asn.au they don’t call loudly, Email: jamna [at] powerup.com.au KROOMBIT FROGSEARCH COOD. - Dr Ed Meyer “This was a real thrill,” The frogs are secretive and hard to find, which has made it very so we’re likely to hang GOLD COAST Dr Meyer said. difficult to discover their breeding habits.Credit: M. Vella on to captive-reared COMMITTEE MEMBER - Hunter McCall Shane Ho – Ph: 5533 8125 female frogs especially,” IPSWICH “We’ve got a fresh clutch that was laid a few days ago, Dr Meyer said. Brett Malcolm - Mob: 0407 673 458 so hopefully we’ll have a few more tadpoles and meta- MARY RIVER CATCHMENT morphs that come through in the next few months.” “It would be great to get numbers up into the hundreds, NEWSLEttEr EdItOr & WEb admIN Eva Ford - Mob: 0408 749 162 high hundreds and, at some point into the thousands, Leading up to this moment, the team had been devel- Email: eva.ford [at] mrccc.org.au but whether that’s achievable, we just don’t know.” Jono Hooper (Acting Editor) oping breeding techniques using less-threatened spe- Email: editor [at] qldfrogs.asn.au NORTH BURNETT Nadia Cambell – Ph: 4166 2049 UpcOmINg EvENtS WELcOmE, NEW mEmbErS Email: admin [at] goondicumpastoralco.com.au FrOgSHOp SaLES PINE RIVERS Unfortauntely the COVID-19 situation and restric- • Valentine McDonald • Amanda Weaver Jenny Holdway Rod Pattison - Ph: 3264 6391 tions put an end to our planned events for 2020, but • Marni Crofts • Vern Williams Ph: 07 3366 1868 Email: rjpattison [at] hotmail.com stay tuned via E-news Emails & our Facebook page as • Susanne Smyth • Michael Cunningham Email: frogshop [at] qldfrogs.asn.au REDLANDS we hope to try again next year! • Louise Beerens • Dominique Potvin Steve Homewood – Ph: 0423 036 676 • Emma Rosie • Eric Vanderduys pOSTAL addrESS Email: bhomewoo [at] bigpond.net.au • Joanne Piper • Wendy Agnew SOMERSET REGION • Paula Adkins • Samual Morison PO Box 7017 East Brisbane, QLD Australia 4169 FrOg QUEStIONS Jono Hooper • Archie Maymann • Geoffrey Heard Email: events_initiatives [at] qldfrogs.asn.au Have questions about frogs or toads? Message us on • Ben Hannay • Coralie Daniels tHaNKS tO OUr SUppOrtErS SOUTH BURNETT Messeneger/Facebook Wendy Benfer NEW pHONE NUmbEr Email: raywendy.benfer [at] bigpond.com FrOg HabITAT WOrKINg bEES The QLD Frog Society has a new phone number: rIc NATTRASS rESEarcH graNt Bowman Park, Bardon First Wednesday and Sunday of each month, during 0491 140 720 The QFS Trust Fund was created with the purpose to the morning. Contact Phil for more info and/or visit help save QLD frogs through education and research https://www.facebook.com/ Please disregard the old number. Thankyou. by means of this Research Grant, and now stands at bowmanparkfroghabitatgroup/ $5,378.41 (+$1 since Spring edition) 2 FROGSHEET - Summer 2020-21 FROGSHEET - Summer 2020-21 3 “Frog Hollow” in Karawatha were bone dry & therefore nasuta. Monday the Litoria wilcoxii living under the Shand Street bridge. FROGGING FOR FROG ID not an option. 9th saw Gillian Egan Mal’s an accomplished Herper & “snake magnet”, WEEK AT IPSWICH host us on her 2 acres of which he found two, a keel back & a pale headed We kicked off on Friday 6/11/20 with the lovely ’day herpers, I’m Brett & I have been Jenny’s in Greenbank. Gillian snake. We also found a very shy male Adelotus brevis Danyelle Gleeson hosting several locals at Lake Man- QFS Ipswich helper (Area Coordinator) for over a is an avid conserva- & got a few photos. Monday 16th, back at the won- chester. We found seven different species including my decade. It has been a pleasure. tionist and has a well- derful Gillian’s Greenbank pond, we encountered first sighting of Stony- G established colony of About six years I creek Frog Litoria started the Queens- Litoria latopalmata, wilcoxii. We discov- land Frogs Facebook Litoria fallax & Beep- ered well established group. It has seen my ing Froglet Crinia colonies of Eastern knowledge & enjoy- parinsignifera in her Sedgefrogs Litoria fal- ment from frogs small semi concreted lax & Broad-palmed increase substantially. Broad-palmed Rocketfrog dam. Gillian’s Latos Rocketfrogs Litoria Credit: B. Malcolm It has also led to a always put on a show latopalmata & Litoria personal association and we found seven different species on the night. wilcoxii in three sepa- with FrogID and the Tuesday a small group of us explored the small pond rate ponds. Frogger selfie Credit: D. Gleeson wonderful Jodi Row- of Mt Nebo road. We were treated by a good number ley. The FrogID app is Saturday the 7th saw of both Litoria peronii & Laughing Treefrogs Litoria brilliant, and I made a Hunter McCall lead a tylerii with several males calling from overhanging seven species. commitment to give it full group of 10 her- branches. Sean found a female Adelotus brevis who All in all, I had a great week. I enjoyed meeting some a real crack when I got pers to two sites on posed for a few photos before showing what great lovely Herpers, we experienced some exciting new the time. This year the Tamborine Mountain. swimmers they are & disappeared into the darkness. Happy Froggers gathered at Lake Manchester. Credit: D.Gleeson sites, sighted & photographed three new species for stars aligned with my The Brewery pond Wednesday, the Logan Legend Vincent Watego led a me & submitted a whole lot of FrogID audio files. rotating work roster (holidays) coinciding perfectly with was going off, with several Emerald-spotted Treefrogs small but enthusiastic group into the eastern side of FrogID Week. Litoria peronii calling. The second site teased us with a the Daisy Hill Koala Sanctuary. Unfortunately, it was a Now if we only got some rain so the new sites can re- few Tusked Frogs Adelotus brevis calling from the creek, ally show us what they have. I spoke to a few folks from QLD Frogs [Ed. Facebook complete bust with no water under the boardwalks. A but they were well hidden. There was a lovely gravid group] & over a few weeks we organised 11 nights of single Striped Marshfrog Lim. peroni & a single Lito- Scarlet-sided Pobblebonk Lymnodynastes terraereginae Brett Malcolm herping. Several experienced herpers were approached ria fallax is all that we found. Lots of knowledge and who posed ages for photos. Both sites had well estab- & agreed to host a herpin’ night on sites that they laughs were shared & it was great catching up. lished Great Barred Frog Mixophyes fasciolatus tad- PRESIDENT REPORT recommended & had access to.
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