The green growling grass frog is one of Australia,s largest frog species and can grow up to 100mm.
It colour ranges from olive to bright emerald green with irregular brown, bronze or black spotting and has a warty back.

This frog is found in Victoria, Tasmania New South Wales and South Australia and found in reeds and rushes growing in slow moving streams, lagoons, swamps and farm dams
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Their call is several short grunts followed by a long deep growl made up in crawk- crok sequences.

These frogs breed in Spring and Summer not being active hunters wait for their prey feeding on insects, lizards, snakes, fish and other frogs.

They are now classified as an endangered species in Victoria but I am happy to say they live in the swamps and wetland near my home in Nerrina, Victoria Australia and I hear them quite often while walking the dog
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To me they sound like the swamp choir hence my rationale for my haiku

Thank you for reading my haiku

Information and the image are from readily available Google Sources and I acknowledge the following ones
Frogs of Australia
Growling grass frogs Museum Victoria
Victorian National Park's Research for the 'Growling Grass frog image'

Also if you would like to hear this frog there are several Utube sounds and the one I recommend is the 'Call of growling grass frog'

Cheers Christine