It is very common in suburban gardens, although can be hard to spot. Verreaux's Tree Frog shows a great variety of colours and patterns across its range, but there are two main forms, the lowland and the highland.
Males call during spring and summer with breeding occuring around water with lots of vegetation. Communication. Spaniel. The Eastern Sedgefrog is active both day and night, spending much of its time in the vegetation, occasionally lunging out to take mosquitoes and other flying insects. This poor specimen is dead - killed by our ferocious (not!) The Eastern Sedgefrog is the smallest tree frog in Brisbane region.
Using its bright orange vocal sac, the frog produces a two-part call: a long "wreeeek' followed by a sharp 'kik kik, kik kik'. Also known as the Eastern Dwarf Treefrog. Like many tree frogs, you are more likely to hear Eastern Sedgefrog's than see them. The eastern dwarf treefrog has a call that attracts attention, and a throat that does likewise. It grows to just 25mm long. Litoria verreauxii Find out more