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Index of Subjects The NS Museum Website is a great resource, Liz. Check the Reptiles and Amphibians of NS. Also Google will bring up good ID pictures. Cheers, Joan > > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: 2008/07/28 Mon AM 12:30:08 EDT > To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca > CC: John Gilhen <GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca> > Subject: Fwd: [NatureNS] Frog over-population? > > 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 > > >
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