Chorus Frogs in Concert

[SludgeMunkey]

Here is a video I made back in April of Pseudacris triseriata, the western chorus frog, trying to get a date in their favored habitat around these parts. This is a very old oxbow pond, once part of the Missouri River, now kept alive by an artesian spring.

YouTube - Nebraska Frog Songs

[John]

That's pretty impressive Johnny. If I were to visit that pond today, what I catch?

[SludgeMunkey]

Funny you should ask, I was there this morning... Currently they area is well occupied by Hyla chrysoscelis, Rana pipiens, Rana blairi, Rana catesbieana, and Acris crepitans. I think it is a safe bet there is Bufo cognatus and Bufo woodhousei present also.

I keep getting reports from the locals that there is one of the three Ambystoma sp. we have there also, but in three months of trying, I have yet to find any substantiated evidence of their presence.

[John]

Ambystoma texanum or my name's Johnny Farnen.

[SludgeMunkey]

I pray that it is, my never ending search for A. texanum where there isn't supposed to be any is what led me to this interesting little pond in the first place.