Sightings of the common frog uncommon in many areas

Ireland has one species of frog and while we have a “very healthy population” of the protected amphibian, people living in the northern half of Ireland are not recording as many sightings as people elsewhere.
“If you draw a line from Galway to Dublin, there is a lot less recording from above that line. So there is not much reporting in the north-west and north-eastern midlands,” said Liam Lysaght, National Biodiversity Data Centre director.