I've never heard our western toads make a call other than the 'release'
chirp, nor have other local herp technicians I spoke to. A quick reference
check revealed the following quote:
"Male toads in British Columbia have no mating call, although a mating call
has been reported from breeding Western Toads in Alberta"
Green, D.M. and R.W. Campbell. 1984. The Amphibians of British Columbia.
Royal BC Museum, Victoria.
I'd be interested in hearing a clip of the singing toads of Alberta!
Mark Phinney
on 3/25/04 12:40 AM, Barb Beck at wrote:
> You have bufo boreas don't you. They sing a lot but sound sometimes like a
> boreal owl and sometimes like a saw-whet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M, J, & V Phinney
> Sent: March 24, 2004 10:22 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Files posted to group web site
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> on 3/23/04 7:49 PM, Walter Knapp at wrote:
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>> Tell those frogs to get out their ice picks and get at it! Wood frogs
>> are supposed to run across the ice and snow to get to their breeding
> water.
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> The key word there being 'water'! The ponds have to thaw out around the
> edges before the wood frogs magically appear....and that hasn't happened
> yet. Once that first real thaw happens, they seem pretty tolerant of
> occasional overnight re-freezing.
>
> I was totally awed by the variety of calls in those Georgia nightlife and
> subsequent samples. Around here it's wood frog &/or chorus frog (our one
> toad species doesn't seem to advertise). Makes for pretty simple inventory
> work!
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> Mark Phinney
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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