Pelophylax saharicus
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Sahara frog (Pelophylax saharicus) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is native to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spanish North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla), and Western Sahara; it has also been introduced to Gran Canaria. In French it is called grenouille verte d'Afrique du Nord, and in Spanish it is known as rana verde norteafricana.
During an expedition to the Sahara Desert in 1912, German ornithologist Ernst Hartert collected several specimens of the Sahara frog at multiple sites in Algeria, which he addressed as "the lake at El-Golea" and "the ditches of the Tidikelt oases called Igosten and In-Salah". The following year, German-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger wrote a description of these specimens for Hartert. Believing they represent a variant of the edible frog (which had the scientific name Rana esculenta at the time), he gave this amphibian the scientific name Rana esculenta saharica. In a 1927 publication, Russian zoologist Pavel Viktorovich Terentjev treated the Sahara frog as a form of the marsh frog (known as Rana ridibunda at the time) under the name Rana ridibunda saharica instead... Wikipedia →
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More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Sahara Frog sighting in Rabat on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Sahara Frog in Rabat on a given day, against about 10% in June and November–March, the lowest months. Those are among Rabat's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain a month against 100 mm in November.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sahara Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Sahara Frog sightings, Rabat ranks 3rd at about 40%. The best odds are in Marrakesh (Morocco, about 70%) and Fez (Morocco, about 50%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sahara Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Rabat (12 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
