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Detail of mural on the side of Herpeton on Burnet road. Mural by the nbk/rws crews.
Photo Copyright 2010, Steve Hopson
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A few glamor shots of a little Gray Treefrog I saw earlier this month. I love finding these guys and getting a few photos but their camouflage is just so good. I am sure I am missing many more than I am seeing.
An adult male Wife-toad Milky Treefrog from Madre Selva Biological Station, Loreto, Peru.
On our first night at Madre Selva Biological Station, we went for a walk around the big loop. About half way through the loop, we came upon this large knot hole in a tree that was growing out of the center of the trail. When I looked at the tree knot hole, I noticed this Trachycephalus cunauaru sitting at the edge. This seemed like an oddly familiar site for some reason and I got a sensation of deja vu. However, I had never walked this trail at night before and don't recall ever seeing this tree during my one day hike.
So, I snapped some photos of the frog and then we moved on. It wasn't until the next day that I realized I had seen that hole before with an T. cunauaru sitting at the opening to it.
Turns out, my good friend, Dick Bartlett, had traveled that same trail one night almost 20 years earlier and took a photo of this very same species (though 18 years before it was formally described) sitting at the edge of that same exact knot hole! He published it in his field guide "Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon: An Ecotourist's Guide", which is where I recall that photo!
Lake Henry
Mahwah, New Jersey
Shot as the last rays of the day permeated a bit into his burrow. 1/40s exposure, ISO 1600 on the 40D with fill flash from the 580ex, uncropped image. I had to fully extend the legs and center column of my manfrotto tripod to get this height, and then manually focus while looking through liveview. I shot some with direct flash as the main light source also, but his environment gets lost in those.
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These cute, plump little frogs are good climbers. The mottled gray coloring serves as camouflage on tree trunks, though it clearly also works on concrete. Hyla chrysoscelis, Hylidae. Central IL Summer 2012.
Sierran Treefrog (Pseudacris sierra) a/k/a Sierra Chorus Frog. There has been a debate raging about classification of this Treefrog for more than a decade. Is the familiar Pacific Treefrog one species (Pseudacris regilla) or three (P. regilla, P. sierra and P. hypochondriaca)? I put the question to USGS frog researcher working in Yosemite. His answer: "It depends on whether you ask a taxonomist [one] or a molecular biologist [three]." What's a poor photographer to do when the academics can't sort it out? Sweetwater Marsh. Buttterfly Valley Botanical Area. Plumas National Forest. Near Quincy. Plumas Co., Calif.
Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella) fine art illustration.
The drawing is based on a photo by Frank Shufelt
Species: Hyla cinerea
Common Name: Green Treefrog
Date: 8-11-2020
Location: Earleville WMA, Cecil County, MD
USGS Quad: Earleville
Comments: ID verified by Brian Goodman, Harford County Coordinator for the 2010-2014 Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Atlas (pers. comm., 8-17-2020).
Fine art illustration of a Barking Treefrog (Hyla gratiosa)
This drawing is based on a photo by Jake Scott
Smooth-skinned and equipped with goofy clown hands, the bird-voiced treefrog is easily confused with her close relatives, the gray treefrogs, save for her relatively small stature and distinctly avian voice. A devout believer in the summer fling, when a suitor sings 'wit-wit-wit-wit' from shrubs surrounding temporary pools our heroine heads out for night of passion that leads to more goofy little treefrogs.
Hyla avivoca, Illinois.
Nubby the dumpy (white's) treefrog... He is actually greener than this but he is under a yellowish light.
A large Cope's treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) from Chicagoland. I find these on roads running through old rolling oak savannah on rainy nights.
This is the first one of these beautiful little creatures that I've seen in years. They are only an inch long and normally camouflaged against their background being able to change color to match the tree bark or foliage they are on. However, they haven't figured out how to match the color of my white back door! I hear them singing from the trees and shrubs in my neighborhood quite often, especially before, during and after a light rain. Note the suction cup toe pads for climbing!