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--Boundary_(ID_UwoPCdcGb0iZ7EcdIolxdw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Yes, the backs and bodies of green frogs are highly variable -- same is true of bullfrogs -- ground colour varies from green to brownish, and they may or may not have variable markings of brown, too. I agree with Randy about most reports of bullfrogs turning out to be green frogs. Check the field guides for their features, since they are very easy to tell apart, based on the prominent longitudinal ridges down the back on each side in green frogs -- no such long ridges in bullfrogs. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: Elizabeth Doull <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: July 27, 2008 3:47:15 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Frog over-population? > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Ooops, I meant to say either Green (not Tree!) or Bull frogs. Do > Green frogs have light brown backs?? Or either green or brown? I > am no expert on reptiles and the last time I studied them was when > I took Biology in high school! Thanks. liz > ................ > > These are Green Frogs, Liz. > > Our only tree frogs are the spring peeper...a very small frog. > Bullfrogs are not listed as being present in Pictou County > according to Gilhen's book (1984). Perhaps all the effort of > volunteers a few years ago in doing the Herp Atlas came up with > reliable sightings for Pictou (or Antigonish). I get a number of > folks every year telling me of Bullfrogs up my way - only once have > they turned out to be Bullfrogs (normally, they're Green Frogs) - > and these were just over the Antigonish border into Guysborough > County. > > And we could be so fortunate to have an overpopulation of frogs! > > Randy --Boundary_(ID_UwoPCdcGb0iZ7EcdIolxdw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Yes, the backs and bodies of green frogs are highly variable -- same is = true of bullfrogs -- ground colour varies from green to brownish, and = they may or may not have variable markings of brown, too. =A0I agree = with Randy about most reports of bullfrogs turning out to be green = frogs. =A0Check the field guides for their features, since they are very = easy to tell apart, based on the prominent longitudinal ridges down the = back on each side in green frogs -- no such long ridges in = bullfrogs.=A0<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Elizabeth Doull <<a = href=3D"mailto:edoull@ns.sympatico.ca">edoull@ns.sympatico.ca</a>></font><= /div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 27, 2008 3:47:15 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Frog = over-population?</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face=3D"Arial">Ooops,=A0I= meant to say either Green (not Tree!) or Bull frogs.=A0=A0 Do Green = frogs have light brown backs??=A0 Or either green or brown?=A0=A0 I am = no expert on reptiles and the last time I studied them was when I took = Biology in high school!=A0=A0=A0 Thanks. liz</font></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font = size=3D"3">................</font></div><div><br></div><div = dir=3D"ltr"><div>These are Green Frogs, Liz.</div><div>=A0</div><div>Our = only tree frogs are the spring peeper...a very small frog. Bullfrogs are = not listed as being present in Pictou County according to Gilhen's book = (1984). Perhaps all the effort of volunteers a few years ago in doing = the Herp Atlas came up with reliable sightings for Pictou (or = Antigonish). I get a number of folks every year telling me of Bullfrogs = up my way - only once have they turned out to be Bullfrogs (normally, = they're Green Frogs) - and these were just over the Antigonish border = into Guysborough County.</div><div>=A0</div><div>And we could be so = fortunate to have an overpopulation of = frogs!</div><div>=A0</div><div>Randy</div></div><