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Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Three! The polar vortex continues here in east-central Illinois, the mercury is pooled at the bottom of the thermometer, so put on a sweatshirt, make yourself a cuppa, and pull up a piping hot episode about frogs! Our guest this week is Jodi Rowley, a conservation biologist with the Australian Museum in Sydney. Jodi has been involved with frog field research in Australia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other places, and she is also involved with a very cool community science project called FrogID.
On her Facebook page, Jodi describes herself as “a conservation biologist obsessed with amphibians”, which is something a lot of us can identify with. I’ve enjoyed her enthusiasm and passion for frogs on social media and I was not surprised to have those signals come in loud and clear during our conversation. Along with her field research, we discussed the Australian FrogID project, which has been tremendously successful in getting ordinary folks involved with recording calling amphibians, and these days, species conservation absolutely requires the attention and involvement of everyone.
Thanks for coming on the show, Jodi! I had a great time talking about frogs (I guess that’s no surprise to anyone). And folks, you can follow the FrogID project on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
PARC: As I mentioned in the show, here are some links for Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation: the main PARC page, and a ‘find PARC‘ page with a map that identifies which PARC chapters cover which regions. Check it out!
PATREONERS! Thank you so much to all of my Patreoners for supporting the show! I really appreciate it. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please consider supporting it via the So Much Pingle Patreon page. And thanks in advance!
And as always, please keep the comments and suggestions coming, and please take time to rate the show on your podcast platform! The show email is somuchpingle@gmail.com, and there’s also a So Much Pingle group on Facebook, for discussion, comments, feedback, suggestions, herp confessions, frog calls you can learn from home, tips for herping better, etc.
Cheers! Mike
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty One, recorded on New Year’s Day! And I hope you all remain happy and healthy and that 2021 will be a good year for all of you.
Hello again everyone, and welcome to Episode Thirty! Today’s episode was recorded just before Christmas. And I hope you are all doing well – keeping your heads down and remaining healthy.
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Nine! I hope you all remain safe and healthy as we make our way into 2021. I took a few weeks off over the holidays to rest and recharge, but I also recorded some interviews, including this episode.
Jeff has also been heavily involved in research and conservation efforts for West Indian rock iguanas (genus Cyclura), and consequently he is a coauthor of 
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Seven! And we add yet another country to the list with this episode, a lengthy conversation with Belgian researcher / author/ herper Jeroen Speybroeck, recorded on Thanksgiving. We had a lot to talk about during this episode, including Jeroen’s fire salamander research, herping in various places around the globe, and also his very good field guide to the herps of Britain and Europe (see second photo). Jeroen and I are both life listers, and we talk about that a bit, and for the second show in a row, Australian thorny devils (Moloch) are discussed (top photo of lucky Jeroen and a thorny devil, I’m just a bit envious).
Another thing Jeroen and I have in common is the documenting of herp adventures – his 
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Six! We’ve had shows coming from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and now we get to add Australia to the list. Last month I talked with Scott Eipper, who hails from Brisbane, up in southeast Queensland. Scott and his wife Tie own and operate 
Hello again everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Five! The episode where I experiment with a different format – 13 segments featuring a baker’s dozen of folks sharing their best and worst (or worst and best) experiences in the realm of amphibians and reptiles. That’s twenty six anecdotes, if you think about it. I have been collecting these tales of woe and woah for a few months now – many thanks to Andy, Mack, Bryan, Phil, Matt, Marisa, Shaun, Brandon, John, Pat, Alex, and Justin for your participation in this project. I had a lot of fun talking with this group and (with one notable exception) no two stories are alike!
Hey there everyone! Welcome to Episode Twenty Four! Thanks for your patience, I had a lot of crazy stuff going on over the past couple of weeks! I think I’m back on track again and I plan on releasing another episode next week for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. This week’s guest is my friend and co-author, Josh Holbrook, and this past October I got to sit around a campfire with Josh, down in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, and we had a nice fireside chat.