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Carpenter Frog

Rana virgatipes

 

June, 2012. New Jersey.

 

An adult male Carpenter Frog found in a sphagnum bog in the New Jersey pine barrens amongst a large chorus of other individuals and Pine Barrens Treefrogs (Hyla andersonii). This species has a unique call; kachuck-kachuck-kachuck, which sounds like a hammer hitting a piece of wood. Carpenter Frogs are denizens of acid & sphagnum bogs, cypress swamps, and other marshes along the Atlantic Coastal Plain, from New Jersey to Florida.

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Uploaded on June 22, 2012
Taken on June 21, 2012