2023 Annual Frog Survey

The 2023 Annual Frog Survey was a great success. Mulloon staff, along with a passionate group of volunteers, completed the data capture after dark on the evening of 23 November. Some great interactions between old friends of the Institute, old and new staff members and landholders were created over a convivial meal and spilled out into the field after dark. An increase in frog numbers was observed/heard at each site and no people were lost in the dark in the process!  

We hope this year to work with our frog expert Sam Patmore to tie the previous frog surveys into an overall summary and make recommendations regarding the ongoing frog monitoring at Mulloon. Watch this space (and our social media) for more information as it comes to hand.

We also set up an iNaturalist project to assist in the field data capture this year which can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/the-mulloon-institute. This can continue to be used by the Science and Monitoring team along with landholders and the public to build an encyclopedia of the flora and fauna within the Mulloon catchment. 

Visit the iNaturalist project set up for the Mulloon catchment here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/the-mulloon-institute