Tatayo's Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi) is a small Centrolenid Frog that lives in the tropical lowland forests from southernmost Costa Rica, down through Panama and into NW Venezuela, and western Colombia and Ecuador.
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The call of the Tatayo's Glass Frog is best described as a single sharp "peep" repeated every five seconds or so. When slowed down, it sounds a bit more like a "wrree", although that discrimination is difficult in a recording. Like other Hyalinobatrachium, the call is high pitched with a carrier frequency of around 4.6-4.8 kHz.
We usually found the calling, sitting upright on a broad leaf overhanging a stream, sometimes quite high over the stream. At close range the call is very piercing and I found it hard to record them because they overpowered (clipped) my microphones in spite of using 32bit float recorder. (In hindsight, I should have backed off a bit - DOH!)
The spectrogram of this call is unremarkable, showing a short, sharp percussive call at around 4.7 kHz. It has a short "arm" after the main call, but I can't hear that in the recording, even when slowed down.
Call of Tatayo's Glass Frog from Anton Valley, Panama
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© Chris Harrison 2024
iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/. Accessed August 24, 2024
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