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Tiny tree frog

Jolly Beach Resort, Antigua ...

 

These frogs might have been tiny, but they sure were noisy! The frog chorus started shortly after sunset, and continued throughout the night until a bit after sunrise.

 

This is not my video ... I found it on YouTube. Full credit to Dave Godson.

youtu.be/lxFNhuqnGjw

 

These are Eleutherodactylus johnstonei (Lesser Antillean Whistling Frog, Coqui Antillano, Johnstone's Whistling Frog).

 

The Antilles coqui (coquí antillano in Spanish), Eleutherodactylus johnstonei, is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and heavily degraded former forests.

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Uploaded on January 26, 2014
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