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Frogs and Toads Newts |
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Common Newt Lissotriton vulgaris 20.04.2021 |
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Bufo
bufo
Common Toad Juvenile https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/amphibians/common-toad https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/jz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXjBQH2j9-4 |
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Bufo bufo
Common Toad. - adult male recorded:15.8.2004 Lancing Ring Meadows |
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Rana
temporaria Common Frog 17.6.2005 Garden |
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Rana temporaria Common Frog | |
Rana
temporaria
Common Frog Body length: |
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Common Frog recorded: 8.6.02 : garden, buxus sempervirens. |
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Common Frog recorded : 17.7.2001 garden |
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Frog/toadlet recorded : 17.6.2001 Garden pond |
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Tadpole
-Frog recorded : 2.8.2004 Garden Pond Appears to have a piece of tail missing Its a frog tadpole, toad tadpoles always much darker almost black, |
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The other way I was told of telling them apart is to pop them in your mouth for a moment -- apparently they don't mind too much. I've never (yet...) dared try this, but the toadpole is supposed to taste horrid and the frogpole not -- or at any rate, not as bad! Richard [Collingridge] on ukwildlife |
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Frog Spawn laid in mid February 2004 recorded 16.2.04 |
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Close up of Spawn laid in mid February 2004 | |
Rana
temporaria
Common Frog (tadpole) recorded: 30.3.04 |
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