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This is a picture of an American Toad on the South Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge near Laurel, Maryland.
Laurel Quad
Male toad and female underneath. Not mating, this is called amplexus. The male clings on to the female so he gets first dibs on egg fertilisation honours. Males sometimes grab other males. If it croaks they let it go! The male was croaking joyously - the female was less enthusiastic............
For those of you who care: I used a Sigma 100mm f2.8 macro with a ring flash. I set up the camera for f9.0 with ISO200. I underexposed 2/3 of a stop as well to get a subtle fill effect without getting a dark background.
Cane toad (Rhinella marina) - Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador
Cane toads can be pests in many areas in which they have been introduced but when they're in their native range I always enjoy seeing them. This was a lone male calling from a small pool created by piles of leaf litter at the side of a river in Buenaventura Reserve in Southern Ecuador. If he's lucky enough to attract a mate, she will lay 1000s of eggs. This is part of the reason why it has become such a problematic invasive in many areas across the world, the other reason is that it is rather poisonous and would be predators often find themselves poisoned (sometimes fatally) after eating these toads. They are much more common in disturbed habitats, and I actually rarely see them in quality pristine habitat like where this one was found.
Common Toad / bufo bufo. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 24/09/21.
'LOVELY, WARTS AND ALL ...'
Captured whilst it was stationary for a few seconds. Love the skin texture showing nicely on this pale khaki green individual - and of course, that wise and wonderful eye.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Found this little guy in the garden yesterday he is about 2cm and was happy to sit on my finger and have his photo taken.(even though he looks grumpy) :-)
While out with my camera one night in Florida, I came upon a this small toad that was sitting on the top rail of a metal fence at the hotel I was at.
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Toads are terrestrial frogs with dry, warty skin and smaller hind legs for walking instead of hopping. This little guy was found inside an abandoned train tracks.
Pennypack Ecological Trust
May 13, 2014
….this is the name I gave this toad that lives in our fire pit. Any time I use the fire pit; I take Harvey out and move him quite far away in our woods and he returns back to the fire pit 3 to 4 days later. He has been living here for the past 5 years now. I check on him every day.
* Canon EOS REBEL T5I
* EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM
The Cane Toad is tough and adaptable, as well as being poisonous throughout its life cycle, and has few predators in Australia.They were deliberately introduced from Hawaii to Australia in 1935, to control scarab beetles that were pests of sugar cane. In 2002, Cane Toads occur throughout the eastern and northern half of Queensland and have extended their range to the river catchments surrounding Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory (source: Australian Museum)
HAd a chance to photgraph Toads as they are just starting to come back to ponds up here in North Scotland. So much easier to approach than frogs. One wanted to crawl into my lens hood!
My first encounter with this colony was last Thursday - 9-4-2015 - about 50 animals cavorting at one spawning site. I went back on the Friday and there were considerably fewer - by Sunday all the action was over. All that was left was the spawn and some marauding common newts. In my experience common frogs keep going for about 10-12 days.
American Toad by Adam Turow
Scherman Hoffman Sanctuary, Bernardsville, NJ
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I think this might be a Southern Toad ? It was found yesterday in western South Carolina, if that helps.
Backyard buddy. Local frog and toad populations seem to be on the upswing and I have to be very vigilant when lifting some of the many rocks, boulders and bricks in my yard to avoid harming them. This one was a bit perturbed when I raised a bolder to expose him :)