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European Toad
Bufo bufo
46.3283, 6.12368
Field Notes
Description:
Here, if my ID is correct some real babes of European Toad, I would say half-way through their larval stage; about 3 to 4 cm long, eyes on top of the head, he body elliptical and brown and dark-green in colour. And here is another spotting, on the same spot but few years ago, of same kind of babes when they just start coming out of water: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/476119090
Habitat:
Seen in a pond in, until recently, protected wetland at the feet of Jura mountain range.
Notes:
I was saying that I saw these in a "until recently protected wetland"... Here, I'm talking of marshes of Prodon, consisting of a small pond in a slightly larger wetland area, the protection aiming to preserve the Yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) and its habitat at the feet of Jura. It was a lovely place, albeit dirty and quite polluted as people were throwing all kind of s..t in the pool and around it. That day, I went for a brief visit to this pond, after a few months of not having a chance; and had my heart broken - some sort of construction or development is going on; plenty of trees were cut on shores, and shores elevated; a large road in woods was also cut; a previous dirt-walking path was covered by rubble - and a large irregularities on this road and around it were filled... The problem is that these holes, when filled with water, were used by toads to lay their eggs; last year I saw toads in them... I'm still trying to find out what happened there.
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