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Northern Cricket Frog
Acris crepitans
35.9269, -79.0386
Field Notes
Description:
Cricket frogs are small frogs with very long legs, pointed snouts and rough, warty skin. They vary in color, ranging from greenish brown to red. They often have a dark triangle present between the eyes and a Y-shaped stripe on their backs. They call from April through August, and their call sounds like a cricket or pebbles being clicked together, “gick-gick-gick.”
Habitat:
Northern Cricket Frogs are very common tiny frogs of shallow water (puddles, ditches, pond margins). In North Carolina, they occur almost exclusively in the Piedmont region.
Notes:
Seen at the Mason Farm Nature Preserve.
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