On Mon, 13 May 2002, Rob Saecker wrote:

> Hey Kelly, or any other herpitologists out there,
>
> have you got a recording of that call that you could put up on the
> web somewhere?

I dabble in photography a bit but I haven't any decent sound recording equipment. Even
the cheap Sony M-530V that I bought for recording data while flying in a helicopter quick
recording before it was a year old. There is a high quality recording of spotted frog
vocalizations available through the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Library of Natural
Sound. It's on the tape/cd called "Frog and Toad calls of the Pacific Coast."

I suppose it might be possible to get permission to use it on a web site but, then again,
how are they going to recoup their investment if the material is readily available on the
web? I guess there are lots of things that have become unprofitable since the world wide
web made so many things available for free.

Kelly McAllister
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, Washington
Reply to: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov