Sunday, August 23, 2009

Found a new frog

How is your summer going?
This time of year I am constantly finding tiny frogs in my yard. They are everywhere. As I was mowing my yard yesterday I found a frog that I have never seen before. Check out the pictures-
I went to Google and typed in "identify a frog" I found the Leaping Pad, a site with tons of frog information and then I clicked on NY frogs, The Cortland Herpetology Connection.
I scrolled down the page and found my frog. It is Rana sylvativa, the wood frog. I thought it was Pseudacris triseriate, the western chorus frog but after comparing photos it is a wood frog.
Do you remember classification? Notice the genus and species names are not similar at all. Even though these frogs look similar they are in different families. Uh oh, you do remember KPCOFGS right? (kingdom, phylum,class, order, family, genus, species)
Have you seen anything unusual this summer? How about any bears?! I have heard reports they are in the area and I am on the look out.

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