A Guide to the Amphibians
and Reptiles of California

Frog and Toad Videos

This is a list of links to all the short videos of frogs and toads that you can find on the individual frog pages. The list is in alphabetical order using the Latin names. Some videos include sound, many do not. These simple videos are intended to show how a frog or toad moves or to show it in its habitat, but some of them show interesting behavior, and many offer a look and a listen to calling frogs during the breeding season. They are kept short, and sometimes without sound, to conserve bandwidth use. Most of them were shot quickly at the time and place where the animal was found before it ran or crawled away. In many cases this was at night with poor artificial lighting, and in many cases the animals were uncooperative. Because many herps quickly run away and hide and others only move for a few seconds then remain motionless even when prodded, it is often hard to film herps in motion without capturing and staging them. Consequently, many of these videos use a few short segments to avoid showing only motionless frogs and toads. Click on the camera icon to watch a video. Many of these videos are in the old Quicktime .mov format. The Quicktime plug-in has been removed from many browsers now so the videos may not play on your browser or your browser might download the video to your computer for you to play offline. Click on a link to visit the home page for a frog or toad.
The following links are shortcuts to the families of frogs and toads listed below: African Clawed Frog - Xenopus Bullfrogs - Lithobates Burrowing Treefrog - Smilisca Cascades Frog - Rana Chorus Frogs - Pseudacris Green Frog - Lithobates Leopard Frogs - Lithobates Narrow-mouthed Toads - Gastrophryne Red-legged Frogs - Rana Sonoran Desert Toad - Ollotis Spadefoots - Scaphiopus and Spea Spotted Frogs - Rana Tailed Frogs - Ascaphus Toads - Anaxyrus Treefrogs - Hyla Treefrogs - Pseudacris Yellow-legged Frogs - Rana
	Tailed Frogs - Ascaphus
	Ascaphus truei - Coastal Tailed Frog	Several views of a male Coastal Tailed Frog at a small forested creek in the Oregon Cascade Mountains.
	Ascaphus truei - Coastal Tailed Frog	A Coastal Tailed Frog tadpole forages on the rocks of a small pool in a small creek in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. You can see its unique sucker-like mouth working from the other side of the glass of a small aquarium.
	*Toads - Anaxyrus* (formerly Bufo)**
	Anaxyrus boreas boreas - Boreal Toad	A toad gives a release call after he is picked up and gently grasped across the back. (It may sound like this toad is suffering, but it is not being harmed. This is a warning call, the same one he makes when another male toad comes into his territory or climbs onto his back and grabs him tightly with his legs.)
	Anaxyrus boreas boreas - Boreal Toad	An adult Boreal Toad hops around a coastal plain in Humboldt County.
	Anaxyrus boreas boreas - Boreal Toad	This is a short video with sound showing several toads at Hot Creek, Nye County, Nevada swimming in shallow water at night, jumping on each others backs, with the toad on the bottom making release calls.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	This short video shows the life cycle of the California Toad, from the late winter breeding season when frenzied males call and compete and pair up with females who lay long strings of eggs, to tiny black tadpoles just emerged from the eggs then developing and forming huge feeding masses, to the tiny toads, recently-transformed from tadpoles, massing together around the pond edge then dispersing on their own, to an adult toad moving about on its own, as it will remain until the next breeding season.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	In late winter just before the breeding season, a huge California toad is found resting underneath a piece of wood near a pond.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	A California Toad moves across the wet ground both by crawling and by hopping
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	A male California Toad calls during daylight from the edge of a rocky creek in Alameda County. The call does not seem to be an agressive or release call, because no other solo male toads were nearby or in contact with him, but there was an amplexing pair swimming back and forth in the water about ten feet away from him.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Two videos showing male toads picked up out of the breeding pond making the release call, then swimming away.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	These videos show some California Toad breeding behavior at the shallow outlet of a pond in Contra Costa County where at least 8 solo males and 10 pairs in amplexus were observed in the area. Not all of them are seen in the videos. Some are heard off camera.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Toads in amplexus laying eggs and swimming across a creek in San Joaquin County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	This video shows three groups of toad egg strings, first some single strings in a shallow creek, then two large collections of egg strings on two separate ponds.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Tadpoles that have just hatched from egg strings but are not yet moving in a rain pool in San Joaquin County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Recently-hatched tadpoles lay around where they were hatched in a pond in Contra Costa County. They have not yet begun swimming.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Thousands of tadpoles swim along the edge of a pond in Contra Costa County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Thousands of tadpoles forage in a thick mass at the edge of a pond in Contra Costa County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Tadpoles in a creekbed in San Bernardino County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Tiny, recently-transformed toadlets on the shores of two small ponds in Contra Costa County.
	Anaxyrus boreas halophilus - California Toad	Thousands of recently-transformed toadlets, many still have a tail, hop around on the bank of a pond in Contra Costa County. This is the same place I watched adults breed and lay eggs three months earlier, which you can hear and see in the videos on this page.
	Anaxyrus californicus - Arroyo Toad	A male Arroyo Toad calls three times at night from the edge of a creek. The video has been edited - the original calls were about a minute apart.
	Anaxyrus californicus - Arroyo Toad	Two male Arroyo Toads compete for position in a breeding creek in San Diego County, wrestling with each other, then both calling at the same time. © Andrew Borcher
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	Male Yosemite Toads swim and hop around a meadow surrounded by melting snow.
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	This male was calling on a cold afternoon from a high-altitude snow-melt pool in a wet meadow. The video has been edited in order to cut out the couple of minutes of silence between his calls.
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	A female toad hops around with a male on her back (called amplexus). You can hear the female making the release call begging for the male to release her. © Julie Nelson
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	A male Yosemite Toad calling to attract a mate. © Julie Nelson
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	Juvenile and adult male Yosemite Toads around a high-elevation lake.
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	Tiny recently-hatched tadpoles swim in shallow puddles in a high mountain meadow in Alpine County
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	A juvenile toad in Alpine County.
	Anaxyrus canorus - Yosemite Toad	Adult toads in amplexus hopping around a breeding pond in Tulumne County. You can hear the female making a faint release call. © Paul Maier
	Anaxyrus cognatus - Great Plains Toad	Two male toads call at night from shallow pools at the edge of an irrigated agricultural field in Riverside County. Other calling toads can be heard in the background.
	Anaxyrus debilis - Western Green Toad	Male Green Toads call at night from a shallow pool.
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	Black Toads crawling around in the water at night. It doesn't get more exciting than that...
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	A Black Toad lunges with its sticky tongue extended, trying to catch something to eat.
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	A solo male approaches a male in amplexus who gives an encounter call.
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	This video shows some of the sounds and activities of Black Toads on the breeding grounds.
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	A group of male toads thrash around in the water trying to wrestle away a female away from another male.
	Anaxyrus exsul - Black Toad	Non-stop ultimate toad-fighting action with a gang of toads trying to steal away females from other males, chasing them around the pond.
	Anaxyrus hemiophrys - Canadian Toad	This is a short video of a few Canadian Toads calling from a marsh on a late May afternoon in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Boreal Chorus Frogs, Northern Leopard Frogs, and Red-winged Blackbirds are among the sounds in the background.
	Anaxyrus hemiophrys - Canadian Toad	This is a short video of a breeding adult male Canadian Toad making release calls.
	Anaxyrus microscaphus - Arizona Toad	Several male Arizona Toads calling and interacting at night at the edge of a small creek next to a river in Washington County, Utah, including two examples of a male attempting amplexus with another male who then makes release calls. Canyon Treefrogs can be heard in the background.
	Anaxyrus microscaphus - Arizona Toad	Several Arizona Toads seen hanging around the edge of a small creek at night in Washington County, Utah.
	Anaxyrus microscaphus - Arizona Toad	A short example of a male calling at night.
	Anaxyrus microscaphus - Arizona Toad	A male gives a release call when he is picked up.
	Anaxyrus microscaphus - Arizona Toad	Tiny recently-metamorphosed toadlets hop and swim around a breeding creek full of tadpoles of several species of frogs and toads.
	Anaxyrus nelsoni - Amargosa Toad	A bunch of Amargosa Toads sit, hop, crawl, and swim around a small creek on a May night in Nye County, Nevada.
	Anaxyrus nelsoni - Amargosa Toad	Amargosa Toad tadpoles in Nye County Nevada.
	Anaxyrus nelsoni - Amargosa Toad	A toad giving a release call when picked up.
	Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad	A male Red-spotted Toad calls at night in San Diego County. California Treefrogs are calling in the background.
	Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad	One call of a Red-spotted toad at night in San Diego County.
	Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad	Several calling male Red-spotted toads at night in a desert creekbed in Yavapai County, Arizona, refuse to call while the camera lights are on them.
	Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad	Red-spotted Toad tadpoles in a small desert pond.
	Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad	Tiny toadlets still transforming from tadpoles crawl around on a mat of algae in a desert pond in San Diego County.
	Anaxyrus retiformis - Sonoran Green Toad	A male Sonoran Green Toad calls at night from dry ground about three feet above a flooded ditch.
	Anaxyrus retiformis - Sonoran Green Toad	A male Sonoran Green Toad stops calling and leaps after a flying insect attracted to my video lights. Catching it with his tongue, he backs up and swallows it.
	Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii - Rocky Mountain Toad	Rocky Mountain Toads calling at night on a pond in Franklin County, Washington.
	Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii - Rocky Mountain Toad	More Rocky Mountain Toads calling at night on a pond in Franklin County, Washington.
	Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii - Rocky Mountain Toad	A Rocky Mountain Toad on his way to a breeding pond at sunset in Franklin County, Washington, gives a release call when he is picked up.
	Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii - Rocky Mountain Toad	Two calling males are pulled from a breeding pond in Riverside County and give weak release calls.
	Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii - Rocky Mountain Toad	360 degrees of toad sitting on a road at night. It wouldn't move, so the camera had to.
	Narrow-mouthed Toads - Gastrophryne
	Gastrophryne mazatlanensis - Sinaloan Narrow-mouthed Toad	A Sinaloan Narrow-mouthed Toad hops around a small creekbed in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
	Treefrogs - Hyla
	Hyla arenicolor - Canyon Treefrog	Several male Canyon Treefrogs call at night from the edge of a rocky creek in Arizona. At the end are several examples of a two-part high-pitched encounter call.
	Hyla arenicolor - Canyon Treefrog	A large adult Canyon Treefrog crawls across the face of a large rock and settles in to rest, using its color and pattern to disappear into the rock. Another hops into a creek to escape from danger.
	Hyla arenicolor - Canyon Treefrog	Canyon Treefrogs in their habitat in Washington County, Utah.
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	Views of eleven adult male Arizona Treefrogs calling at night from a rain pool in Coconino County, Arizona, with a deafening chorus in the background.
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	Views of three calling males, bothered by other frogs, making a raspy, ratcheting encounter or territorial call.
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	A calling male is swarmed by a bunch of other frogs (presumably males) who begin attempting to amplex each other, resulting in encounter and release calls. It could be that a female had entered the territory and that attracted them. If so, she managed to escape without being grabbed one of the males.
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	Several views of males and females in amplexus, with examples of other frogs approaching them and jumping over and around them (reminding me of the old children's game of Leap Frog.)
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	Some views of many clusters of eggs and the breeding pool in the afternoon.
	Hyla wrightorum - Arizona Treefrog	Male frogs compete in the breeding pool at night, swimming and jumping all over each other in a frenzy.
	Bullfrogs - Lithobates
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	A big male bullfrog calls from the edge of a lake in the daytime. He sat making single calls every few minutes, until suddenly lots of other bullfrogs began calling all around him and then he made longer series of calls. Here we see him start with a full series of calls, then wait a bit before making a second series of calls, but this time starting with some longer notes before doing his typical calls. There was a second male about 10 feet from him who was silent, but after this male makes his second full series of calls, the second male begins calling at 1 minute 10 seconds into the video. We can't see him, but he is about as loud as the first frog. You hear him when you can see that the first frog is silent. The second male's calling disturbed this frog so much, he made a short, sharp, territorial call and leaped in the air in the direction of the second frog. He landed closer to the second frog, but the second frog hadn't moved.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	This is a very short version of the first series of calls heard in the long video.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	This is also from the long video - the short, sharp, territorial call made just before the frog leaps toward the other male.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	Views of several bullfrogs in ponds and creeks.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	A large male Bullfrog calls at night from a lake.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	A bullfrog sitting on the edge of a small pond tries to grab an insect with its tongue and fails, but succeeds on the second try, then jumps into the water to finish it off.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	Bullfrogs sitting around a crowded pond interact with each other, making chirping sounds and other noises.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	Hundreds of bullfrogs make their frightened chirping sounds as they jump in and out of the water, or run across the surface to escape from danger.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	Although they are quick to swim to the bottom when first approached, American Bullfrog tadpoles will usually calm down and resuface, where they slowly swim, float, and socialize.
	Lithobates catesbeianus - American Bullfrog	Mature 4-legged tadpoles at a small pond in Oregon.
	Leopard Frogs - Lithobates
	Lithobates berlandieri - Rio Grande Leopard Frog	A male Rio Grande Leopard Frog calls at night from the edge of an agricultural canal in Imperial County, using his throat sack as well as pouches on the side of the neck to produce a variety of sounds. Another leopard frog joins in and they are both accompanied by an American Bullfrog.
	Lithobates berlandieri - Rio Grande Leopard Frog	A male Rio Grande Leopard Frog calls at night in Imperial County, accompanied by insects.
	Lithobates berlandieri - Rio Grande Leopard Frog	A male Rio Grande Leopard Frog calls at night from the edge of an agricultural canal in Imperial County, using his repertoire of grunts and chuckles, then he is accompanied by another leopard frog and several American Bullfrogs.
	On a sunny August day in Santa Cruz County Arizona, I watched a bunch of Chiricahua Leopard Frogs go about their business around a nearly evaporated cattle pond. The next day a huge thunderstorm hammered the area, filling the ponds back up, but I was lucky to film the frogs when their foraging grounds were limited. After initially fleeing from me, they eventually tolerated my presence and crept back onto the shore, sometimes only several feet from where I was standing, and began feeding. Below are five short videos of these frogs in and around the pond. I estimated there were almost 60 frogs.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	After first fleeing me by jumping into the water, the frogs gradually hopped out of the pond and sat and waited to try to catch some of the many flying insects and invertebrates that landed on the mud around the pond.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	As the temperature increased, the frogs began to assemble into groups, including some large piles of over a dozen. I could not figure out the reason for this behavior, but it appeared to be some kind of social interaction, since they were not feeding.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	The frogs mostly sat and waited for food, but occasionally they crawled or hopped quickly to catch an insect. They jump so quickly to catch their food, that it is almost not visible in real time. This video shows a number of frogs feeding in real time, then repeated at the end in slow motion where you can see their huge mouths and tongues in action.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	Not every feeding attempt was successful. In the first segment you see a frog leap after a worm, then spit it out along with some apparently distasteful red ants. The frog had to use its front feet to pull the ants off of its tongue. The ants continued on afterwards a little shaken, but apparently unharmed. The next segment shows a large flying insect crawling on the shore, with several frogs leaping one by one towards it only to decide it was not edible.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	A Chiricahua Leopard Frogs sheds its old skin, using all four legs to pull the skin and push it towards its mouth which is opened and closed to help pull the skin off. Here you can see the skin pulled from the front toes and rear legs. This one minute video was cut down from about four minutes, but the shedding went on for much longer.
	Lithobates chiricahuensis - Chiricahua Leopard Frog	Views of a different group of Leopard frogs from those above at a different pond covered with red vegetation, as they hop around, bask, feed, and shed.
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog	An adult male calls during daylight from a marsh in Manitoba, Canada in May. Other Northern Leopard Frogs, Boreal Chorus Frogs, and Canadian Toads are heard in the background along with several birds.
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog	Two videos of a Northern Leopard Frog calling on a sunny April afternoon in Grant County, Washington. Redwinged and yellow-headed blackbirds and other birds are heard in the background. Calling was sporadic over a long period of time, so these calls have been assembled from longer videos.
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog	A pond with a few of the last remaining Northern Leopard Frogs in Grant County, Washington.
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog	A Northern Leopard Frog on the rocky shore of a river in Washington County, Utah.
	Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog	Several egg masses at the edge of a marsh in Manitoba Canada in May.
	Lithobates sphenocephala - Southern Leopard Frog	Southern Leopard Frogs in Virginia.
	Lithobates yavapaiensis - Lowland Leopard Frog	Leopard frogs around a cattle pond in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
	Lithobates yavapaiensis - Lowland Leopard Frog	Juvenile leopard frogs hop around a small desert creek in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
	Lithobates yavapaiensis - Lowland Leopard Frog	A Lowland Leopard frog calls at night from a small pond in Pima County, Arizona.
	Green Frog - Lithobates
	Lithobates clamitans - Green Frog	A Green Frog calls from a hidden location in a marsh at night in July in Fairfax County, Virginia. Other Green Frogs and some very loud Green Treefrogs are calling in the background.
	Sonoran Desert Toad - Ollotis
	Ollotis alvarius - Sonoran Desert Toad	Several Sonoran Desert Toads out at night in Arizona, hopping and running quickly across desert roads.
	Ollotis alvarius - Sonoran Desert Toad	Sonoran Desert Toads in a rain pool at night in Arizona, including an interaction between two toads where one makes a release call. Lowland Burrowing Treefrogs and Couch's Spadefoots are calling loudly in the background, which might be why these weak-voiced toads were not calling, only waiting around on the banks and in the water for females to come.
	Treefrogs - Pseudacris
	Pseudacris cadaverina - California Treefrog	A male treefrog calling on a windy night from the edge of a small pond in San Diego County. He makes three distinct sounds - a low call, then several higher-pitched calls followed by some ratcheting notes, ending with another high-pitched call.
	Pseudacris cadaverina - California Treefrog	At night at a small pond in San Diego County, after I make an imitation of his call, a male frog repeatedly makes what appears to be his encounter call while aggressively moving towards the camera until he finally hops away. A Red-spotted Toad and other CA Treefrogs are heard in the background.
	Pseudacris cadaverina - California Treefrog	A male treefrog calls from the edge of a small pond.
	Pseudacris cadaverina - California Treefrog	California Treefrog tadpoles in a shallow sunny pool in a slow-moving creek flowing through a San Diego County desert canyon.
	Pseudacris hypochondriaca hypochondriaca - Baja California Treefrog	A male Baja California Treefrog calls at night as part of a chorus of frogs in Kern County. He starts with the two-parted call, then speeds up a bit slurring the two parts together into what is almost a one-part call which he then alternates with the two-parted call.
	Pseudacris hypochondriaca hypochondriaca - Baja California Treefrog	A Baja California Treefrog in a small mountain stream.
	Pseudacris hypochondriaca hypochondriaca - Baja California Treefrog	Baja California Treefrog eggs at the edge of a creek in March.
	Pseudacris hypochondriaca hypochondriaca - Baja California Treefrog	Baja California Treefrog tadpoles in an aquarium a month after hatching.
	Pseudacris hypochondriaca hypochondriaca - Baja California Treefrog	Baja California Treefrog tadpoles in a pool at the edge of a creek in June.
	Pseudacris regilla - Northern Pacific Treefrog	A male treefrog calls while floating on a pond in the Cascades Mountains of Washington on a sunny Summer day. This is the two-part advertisement call.
	Pseudacris regilla - Northern Pacific Treefrog	A man makes frog sounds to elicit responses from a treefrog.
	Pseudacris regilla - Northern Pacific Treefrog	In this short video you can hear some land calls and see a couple of loations in Washington where the land calls are being made. (And you get an idea of how hard it is to find a land-calling frog in such dense vegetation.)
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	Three adult male Sierran Treefrogs make their advertisement call one afternoon in early March in Contra Costa County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	In this short video we see three adult male Sierran Treefrogs make their encounter call. These calls were elicited by making a raspy noise near the frogs as they were sitting on the water in calling position. The call of each frog is slightly different.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	A male Sierran Treefrog makes a few advertisement calls, until a second frog between him and the camera, makes a raspy trilled encounter call. The first frog responds with his encounter call, but when the second frog continues, he then turns to face his aggressor and charges toward him, continuing to make his encounter call. The second frog changes his call to a faster one part call. Finally they both stop, and the first frog sucks in his throat sac and dives underwater.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	An adult male Sierran Treefrog makes a one-part call while floating on the water on a sunny afternoon in Contra Costa County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	In this video we zoom out from a calling Sierran Treefrog to show an overview of his habitat in Contra Costa County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	A male treefrog makes the one-part or enhanced call from the edge of a small temporary snow-melt pond at 8,600 feet elevation in Alpine County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	Sierran Treefrog tadpoles feed in a pond and a puddle in a creekbed on a sunny spring afternoon in Contra Costa County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	Thousands of recently-metamorphed Sierran treefrogs surround a tiny pond in the mountains of Siskiyou County.
	Pseudacris sierra - Sierran Treefrog	Recently-transformed Sierran treefrogs around the shores of their birth ponds.
	Chorus Frogs - Pseudacris
	Pseudacris maculata - Boreal Chorus Frog	A Boreal Chorus Frog callsfrom a marsh in Manitoba, Canada. He starts solo, then begins to call in sync with a second male. The snoring calls of Northern Leopard Frogs are heard in the background.
	Pseudacris maculata - Boreal Chorus Frog	A tiny Boreal Chorus Frog found under a rock near a pond in a forest clearing in the mountains of Coconino County, Arizona.
	Red-legged Frogs - Rana
	Rana aurora - Northern Red-legged Frog	A Northern Red-legged Frog on a late summer day.
	Rana aurora - Northern Red-legged Frog	Northern Red-legged Frog breeding habitat with eggs in Washington.
	Rana aurora - Northern Red-legged Frog	More Northern Red-legged Frog breeding habitat with eggs in Washington.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	A large adult California Red-legged Frog sits still at the edge of a pond under some vegetation until a grasshopper lands nearby when it explodes into action, grabbing the insect on the underside of its long sticky pink tongue.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	The same frog seen above eating grasshoppers, but this time in slow motion so you can see the big pink tongue in action.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	Red-legged frogs around a couple of small ponds in July.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	Red-legged frogs around a small pond in August.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	Two male California Red-legged Frogs are seen here in a Contra Costa County pond in March in amplexus with California Toads (possibly female.) Male toads attempt to wrestle the frogs off their prospective mates. When they grab the frogs, the frogs give their low chuckling release call, while the toads make their peeping release call. The video also starts and ends with the frog release calls.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	More shots of male California Red-legged frogs in amplexus with California Toads.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	A bunch of juvenile California Red-legged Frogs sit around in a Contra Costa County pond on a sunny summer afternoon.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	Adult frogs sitting around in ponds in Contra Costa and Marin Counties.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	A brief look at two masses of fresh red-legged frog eggs in a small pond.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	Quick looks at a few large California red-legged frog tadpoles in a couple of small ponds. It's hard to get good pictures of these tadpoles because I'm not allowed to catch them. The one shown clearly was actually injured and dying floating at the edge of a pond, so I was able to get it in focus, at least.
	Rana draytonii - California Red-legged Frog	This video shows breeding habitat on a sunny day in late January with several male frogs calling along with some birds singing. You'll probably have to turn the volume all the way up to hear the frogs, but you won't see them. I've tried to photograph frogs calling but without any luck. It appears that at this location they call from locations hidden within the reeds, so this is the best I'll ever do here.
	Yellow-legged Frogs - Rana
	Rana boylii - Foothill Yellow-legged Frog	A Foothill Yellow-legged frog calls at the edge of a small pool in a river with just its head out of the water, producing a call that can be heard in the air and underwater. The sounds heard here were recorded with an underwater microphone placed about 3 feet behind the frog.
	Rana boylii - Foothill Yellow-legged Frog	Scenes from a Foothill Yellow-legged Frog breeding site along a river in Oregon, including calls made in the air and underwater. (The underwater calls were not recorded along with the video, they were added later, however, the frogs depicted underwater are calling male frogs.)
	Rana boylii - Foothill Yellow-legged Frog	Foothill Yellow-legged frogs trying to hide by blending in with the rocks on the bottoms of several creeks in California and southern Oregon.
	Rana boylii - Foothill Yellow-legged Frog	Tadpoles feeding in a rocky creek in Douglas County, Oregon.
	Rana muscosa - Southern Mountain Yellow-legged Frog	Some of the few last remaining juvenile and adult Southern Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs hang on in a small creek on a sunny summer day in the San Gabriel Mountains.
	Rana sierrae - Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog	These are five videos of three different male frogs calling during an early summer afternoon in Alpine County. Running water, birds, insects, and an occasional Pacific Treefrog are heard in the background.
	Rana sierrae - Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog	Several pairs of male and female frogs in amplexus are seen in this video with attempts by other males to steal the females. They are successfully fought off by the amplexing males, usually by a strong kick, but sometimes a long wrestling match ensues.
	Rana sierrae - Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog	Several groups of male frogs are seen during the breeding season chasing and amplexing each other. You can hear release calls in the first few scenes. This behavior continued for hours, so it did not appear that they were mistaking each other for females they could breed with, but that it was some kind of territorial behavior between males. Or they could have been practicing their pouncing skills for when they encountered females in the future. (This is a long video which might take some time to download.)
	Rana sierrae - Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog	Two males are seen during the breeding season chasing and amplexing each other until one leaves and the other begins calling.
	Rana sierrae - Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog	Large mature tadpoles swim at the shallow edge of a small lake in Alpine County.
	Cascades Frog - Rana
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Cascades frogs along a creek and in ponds in Siskiyou County.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Lots of Cascades frogs filmed as they were encountered one summer morning along a creek in the mountains of Siskiyou County.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Views of several Cascades frogs in their habitat, a creek in the mountains of Siskiyou County.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	A look at a Cascades Frog breeding pond high in the Cascades, including the pond surrounded by melting snow, male frogs in calling position, two calling males, and two episodes of male frogs attempting to mount other males with sounds of protest.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Cascades frog tadpoles in a still pool 6,400 ft. up in the mountains in Siskiyou County
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Several adult male frogs make calling sounds in the Washington Cascade Mountains.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	An adult male frog floats on the breeding pond, trading calls with two other frogs heard in the background.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	The bottom frog of a pair of adults in amplexus (probably a female) makes a few release calls as it tries to shake off the male on its back.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Male frogs chase each other around in the breeding pond, chattering and clucking.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	A male frog discovers another frog (probably a female that has already laid eggs) grabs on to her, and is carried around the pond as she tries to shake him off.
	Rana cascadae - Cascades Frog	Views of some of the many egg masses in a breeding pond in the Washinton Cascades Mountains.
	Spotted Frogs - Rana
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	Views of Columbia Spotted Frogs during the breeding season, including lots of breeding males sitting in the pond, huge egg masses, and a quick look at the breeding habitat. No sound.
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	Male Columbia Spotted Frogs in a breeding pond in call underwater and chase each other around an amplexing pair.
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	Several male Columbia Spotted Frogs in a breeding pond call in the air while floating on the water, followed by a male diving, calling underwater, then surfacing.
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	A male Columbia Spotted Frog in a breeding pond calls in the air. When he is joined by three other frogs, he calls underwater, chases one and grabs on. We hear release calls made underwater, then he lets go and surfaces.
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	A male Columbia Spotted Frog in a breeding pond calls in the air while floating on the water, then dives and calls underwater.
	Rana luteiventris - Columbia Spotted Frog	A male Columbia Spotted Frog in a breeding pond calls above and below the water as he chases another frog.
	Rana pretiosa - Oregon Spotted Frog	An Oregon Spotted frog sitting in a canal in southern Washington in late August.
	Burrowing Treefrogs - Smilisca
	Smilisca (Pternohyla) fodiens - Lowland Burrowing Treefrog	Two males call at night while sitting on wet grass at the edge of a shallow rain pool in Pima County, Arizona.
	Smilisca (Pternohyla) fodiens - Lowland Burrowing Treefrog	Males at night, calling and waiting from dry land next to a breeding pool in Pima County, Arizona. Couch's Spadefoots can be heard calling in the background.
	Smilisca (Pternohyla) fodiens - Lowland Burrowing Treefrog	Sitting at night in the Arizona desert next to a breeding pond where other Lowland Burrowing Treefrogs and Couch's Spadefoots are calling, a frog repeatedly snaps up bugs with its big pink tongue, which you can seen when the action is slowed down a few times.
	Spadefoots - Scaphiopus and Spea
	Scaphiopus couchii - Couch's Spadefoot	Male spadefoots call at night from a temporary rain pool.
	Scaphiopus couchii - Couch's Spadefoot	Male and female spadefoots in amplexus in a temporary rain pool.
	Scaphiopus couchii - Couch's Spadefoot	A group of adult males at night in a breeding pond in Arizona swim around harassing each other. Other male Couch's Spadefoots are calling in the background along with some Lowland Burrowing Treefrogs.
	Spea hammondii - Western Spadefoot	A tiny juvenile spadefoot, which probably transformed about 2 - 3 months earlier, is found crossing a road at night in San Joaquin County. Disturbed by our lights, it started digging into the ground in typical spadefoot fashion - using the hind legs to dig and slowly sinking down backwards to hide. But it could not dig deep enough due to the hard ground, so it hopped away into the dry grass.
	Spea hammondii - Western Spadefoot	Western Spadefoot tadpoles swim and feed in a murky rain puddle in Alameda County. The have to eat as much as possible so they will grow large enough to transform into terrestrial spadefoots before the puddle completely dries up.
	Spea hammondii - Western Spadefoot	A male and a female spadefoot in amplexus underwater in a breeding area of a rocky creek bed in San Joaquin County. You can also see some eggs by the pair and floating nearby. (The first shot is of the female after the male left her.)
	Spea hammondii - Western Spadefoot	Tadpoles in muddy rain puddles in Riverside County in early April.
	Spea hammondii - Western Spadefoot	An adult male calls at night in a shallow creek in San Diego County. © Andrew Borcher
	Spea intermontana - Great Basin Spadefoot	One night while searching for spadefoot choruses to record, we discovered a spadefoot crossing a gravel road. After we picked it up and moved it to the sand for photographs, it began to slowly bury itself. It took about 5 minutes to completely bury itself, but that has been cut down to about a minute here.
	Spea intermontana - Great Basin Spadefoot	Male spadefoots call at night from a shallow stagnant pool in central Washington.
	Spea intermontana - Great Basin Spadefoot	A Great Basin Spadefoot digs into sandy soil and buries itself. © Julie Nelson
	Spea multiplicata - New Mexico Spadefoot	A spadefoot calls at night while floating on top of a flooded pool in a wash in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. When another male comes close he makes a different snoring sound and swims around. Other spadefoots and Western Green Toads are heard in the background.
	Spea (either bombifrons or multiplicata)	Spadefoot tadpoles in a rain pool in Cochise County, Arizona metamorphose into tiny tailed spadefoots and move onto land as the pool quickly drys up. (Shown over a period of about one week.)
	Spea (either bombifrons or multiplicata)	A tiny recently-metamorphosed spadefoot which has not yet absorbed its tail hops around next to its dessicating breeding pool with a predator attached to its tail (probably a water scavenger beetle larva.) Cochise County, Arizona. These were tentatively identified as Spea bombifrons, but there is a chance they could also be Spea multiplicata (stagnalis.)
	Spea (either bombifrons or multiplicata)	Spadefoot tadpoles swim around in a small aquarium. Cochise County, Arizona. These were tentatively identified as Spea bombifrons, but there is a chance they could also be Spea multiplicata (stagnalis.)
	African Clawed Frog - Xenopus
	Xenopus laevis - African Clawed Frog	A tadpole swimming underwater.

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