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Hyla versicolor * Knott Co, Ky
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyla
Size - about 2" long
The Gray Treefrog can be green, gray, or brown in color. It can be a solid color, or it can have blotches on its back. The gray treefrog can change its color in seconds. It tends to become darker when it is cold or dark. Its coloring helps it blend in with tree bark! It has a white underside and lots of warts. It has large, sticky toe pads that help it cling to tree bark and other surfaces. It has bright yellow to orange skin under its thighs.
The gray treefrog is nocturnal. It spends the day resting in trees and shrubs. At night, it crawls among the branches and leaves looking for food. It usually only comes out of the trees and bushes during the breeding season. In the winter, it hibernates under leaves, bark, or rocks on the forest floor.
Breeding season runs from April to August. Males gather in trees and bushes next to breeding ponds and swamps and begin calling. The male aggressively defends its territory from intruders. The female selects a mate based on his call. She lays her eggs on the surface of shallow water in ponds or swamps. She may also lay her eggs in standing water in tire ruts, vernal pools, or even swimming pools! The eggs are attached to vegetation to keep them from floating away. The female lays as many as 2,000 eggs in groups of 10-40 eggs. The tadpoles hatch in 4-5 days and change into froglets in about two months.
Info taken from: www.nhptv.org/wild/graytreefrog.asp
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A pair of grey tree frogs in amplexus after heavy spring rains flooded a bottomland forest. The smaller male is on top. Harris Co, TX.
While placing birds in the box to be banded after a net-checking run, I looked out the window of the banding station and noticed a greenish tree frog that apparently a Gray Tree Fron, sitting in the sun.
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This gray tree frog was not pleased when I tipped him out of an empty flower pot. He has since taken his grumpy self off to a more congenial spot in nearby shrubbery.
Location: Peninsula State Park, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
This tree frog was actually found in climbing a wall in the women's rest room near our campsite. I moved the frog to a nearby shrub and took this photo.
Red n' gray easter
(Hyla chrysoscelis). Jasper County, Texas. This individual was found calling amidst a deafening chorus of Hyla chrysoscelis, Hyla versicolor, and Acris crepitans in a small forested wetland in the Big Thicket.
A second round of Tiny gray Tree frogs
On 24 Aug 2014 I stopped by a small pond near my home in hopes of catching a few photos of bullfrogs. It was still early morning with a light dew on the grass and as I was standing by the pond quiet and still hoping to spot the bullfrogs I started to notice the grasses plants and foliage around me and the pond. Then I noticed the first Tiny Gray tree Frog sitting on a leaf just a foot or less away from me. Then I noticed another and another. In all I spotted about a dozen of the quiet little fellows around me but I am sure there were more I didn't see. If I had to pick a real "OH Wow " moment from all my photos this past summer this would be it. These little frogs were amazing so tiny and well camouflaged that I was standing with them all around me and only by luck spotted them
On 24 Aug 2014 I stopped by a small pond near my home in hopes of catching a few photos of bullfrogs. It was still early morning with a light dew on the grass and as I was standing by the pond quiet and still hoping to spot the bullfrogs I started to notice the grasses plants and foliage around me and the pond. Then I noticed the first Tiny Gray tree Frog sitting on a leaf just a foot or less away from me. Then I noticed another and another. In all I spotted about a dozen of the quiet little fellows around me but I am sure there were more I didn't see. If I had to pick a real "OH Wow " moment from all my photos this past summer this would be it. These little frogs were amazing so tiny and well camouflaged that I was standing with them all around me and only by luck spotted them
A gray tree frog, west of Trinity, Texas. Yellow leg coloration hidden in this shot. Hyla versicolor
Une rainette qui change de couleurs comme le caméléon et dont j'adore le chant semblable à une sonnerie de téléphone.
Hyla chrysocelis
Prime Hook. 5/19/18
There is no visible physical difference between Hyla chrysocelis and Hyla versicolor, but the call is quite different. H. versicolor has a more melodic sounding, lower pitched, and generally slower call than H. chrysocelis. Here's a good video with examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSwnJS_60E
9/3/18: Just now getting around to tagging and making this public.
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