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Common Frog, 12 April 2013,... 025 f
Common Frog, ' Rana temporaria ( Anura )
The most widespread of the European frogs, the Common Frog is relatively robust, with a wide, blunt snout and two parallel ridges running down the back. Its colour is variable but the ground colour is usually yellowish to olive-brown, and the markings dark brown to almost black, The colour often intensifies during the breeding season, when the female develops a granular skin and the male's throat often turns bluish, Active during the day and the night, the northern populations hibernate under logs and stones, or in leaf mould or burrows,.
Size - 6 - 8 cm,
Young - Lays 1,000 to 4,000 eggs,
Diet - Slugs, snails, insects, worms, and other invertebrates,
Status - Common,
Similar Species - Marsh Frog ( R. ridibunda ), which is larger, and often greener,....
Common Frog, 12 April 2013,... 025 f
Common Frog, ' Rana temporaria ( Anura )
The most widespread of the European frogs, the Common Frog is relatively robust, with a wide, blunt snout and two parallel ridges running down the back. Its colour is variable but the ground colour is usually yellowish to olive-brown, and the markings dark brown to almost black, The colour often intensifies during the breeding season, when the female develops a granular skin and the male's throat often turns bluish, Active during the day and the night, the northern populations hibernate under logs and stones, or in leaf mould or burrows,.
Size - 6 - 8 cm,
Young - Lays 1,000 to 4,000 eggs,
Diet - Slugs, snails, insects, worms, and other invertebrates,
Status - Common,
Similar Species - Marsh Frog ( R. ridibunda ), which is larger, and often greener,....