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EST. 2009 · PORTLAND, OR · ISSUE No. 203

The Community Forum

A working discussion space for amateur naturalists, hobbyists, and citizen scientists — moderated by regional herpetologists, organized by sub-board, and built for the kind of question that deserves more than a comment thread.

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A forum for people who actually look at frogs.

The FrogWorld forum is a working discussion space — not a comment section. Threads are organized into six sub-boards, every account is held to a posting standard, and a regional herpetologist reviews flagged identification posts within seven days. You'll find help with field identification, call ID and bioacoustics, non-medical husbandry questions, trip coordination, and citizen-science contributions.

What the forum is not: a marketplace for wild-caught animals, a substitute for veterinary care of captive amphibians, or a place to seek medical advice of any kind. We don't host trade listings, and we don't diagnose sick frogs by photo. Registration is free, takes about a minute, and unlocks posting, subscriptions, and the sightings map.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The six rooms people post in.

Every thread lives in exactly one sub-board. Moderators keep topical drift in check, and a regional herpetologist rotates through ID Help and Calls each week. Numbers are live as of this morning.

  1. 01

    SUB-BOARD · IDENTIFICATION

    ID Help

    Photo and call-clip IDs from the field. Post the location, date, and habitat if you have them — better yet, post the GPS pin from your field notebook. Regional reviewers triage the queue.

    Threads
    4,218
    Posts
    31,902
    Mod
    Dr. P. Okafor
  2. 02

    SUB-BOARD · BIOACOUSTICS

    Calls & Bioacoustics

    Spectrograms, seasonal call timing, dialect variation, and recording gear questions. Co-moderated by the editor-in-chief and a visiting acoustic ecologist each quarter.

    Threads
    1,604
    Posts
    11,287
    Mod
    Dr. M. Halverson
  3. 03

    SUB-BOARD · HUSBANDRY

    Husbandry Q&A

    Captive setup, vivarium design, feeding, breeding, and ethical sourcing from captive-bred lines. This is a non-medical board — sick animals belong with a qualified exotics veterinarian, not on a forum.

    Threads
    5,941
    Posts
    48,330
    Mod
    L. Sandstrom
  4. 04

    SUB-BOARD · FIELDWORK

    Field Trip Coordination

    Caravans, herping meet-ups, permit advice, and after-action trip reports. Use the regional lounge below if your trip is locality-specific; this board is for cross-region coordination.

    Threads
    2,210
    Posts
    17,884
    Mod
    R. Adeyemi
  5. 05

    SUB-BOARD · CITIZEN SCIENCE

    Citizen Science

    FrogWatch March, NAAMP routes, chytrid swab coordination, and the 42,617-entry community sightings log. Verified entries are cross-referenced with the AmphibiaWeb and IUCN Red List APIs.

    Threads
    1,177
    Posts
    9,041
    Mod
    Dr. K. Yamada
  6. 06

    SUB-BOARD · REGIONAL

    Regional Lounges

    138 country-level and ecoregion sub-rooms — from the Atlantic Forest to the Western Ghats. Lounge threads default to local languages where applicable; English is the bridge tongue.

    Threads
    7,832
    Posts
    62,159
    Mods
    380 contributors

RIGHT NOW

The room is alive.

A snapshot of threads with activity in the last 90 minutes. Sorted by most-recent reply. Registration is required to post or subscribe.

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EDITOR'S NOTE · MARCH 2026

“The forum is the part of FrogWorld I read first every morning. It is where the species profiles get stress-tested — by people who have just come in from the rain with the specimen still in their pocket. Our job as moderators is to keep the room collegial, on-topic, and ruthlessly evidence-led. If you are new here: post your location, post your photo scale, and trust that a regional reviewer will get to you. If you are an old hand: welcome back, the kettle is on.”

Portrait of Dr. Mira Halverson, Editor-in-Chief of FrogWorld.

Dr. Mira Halverson

Editor-in-Chief · PhD, Herpetology (UC Berkeley) · 380 regional moderators

BY THE NUMBERS

A community worth registering for.

Registered members
38,400
Across 138 countries · founded 2009
Active threads per week
1,840
Across six sub-boards
Regional moderators
380
Active volunteer contributors
ID review turnaround
7 days
Average on flagged ID posts

Figures audited quarterly. Cited in 38 peer-reviewed publications since 2017.