Amphibians of Eastern Ontario
Frogs
For many, our earliest experiences with wildlife involve catching frogs at local ponds or creeks. Through our lives, the spring and summer night choruses of many and varied froggy voices speak of tranquility and refuge from busy urban lives. From thumbnail-sized spring peepers to fat bellowing bullfrogs, they clamour for attention in the business of propagating their species each year.
By contrast, salamanders and newts scurry in the leaf litter, or glide through aquatic habitats, in silence that masks their immense numbers. Rarely seen, they are the modern representatives of the first vertebrates to crawl onto dry land hundreds of millions of years ago.
By contrast, salamanders and newts scurry in the leaf litter, or glide through aquatic habitats, in silence that masks their immense numbers. Rarely seen, they are the modern representatives of the first vertebrates to crawl onto dry land hundreds of millions of years ago.
Ten species of frogs are found in Eastern Ontario. These belong to three families; toads (1 species), treefrogs (3 species), and true frogs (6 species).
American Toad crapaud d'Amérique Bufo americanus
Gray Treefrog rainette versicolore hyla versicolor
Spring Peeper rainette crucifère pseudacris crucifer
western chorus frog rainette faux-grillon de l'Ouest pseudacris triseriata
Threatened
wood frog GRENOUILLE DES BOIS rana sylvatica
Northern Leopard frog grenouille léopard rana pipiens
Pickerel frog grenouille des marais rana palustris
Green Frog grenouille verte rana clamitans
Mink Frog grenouille du Nord rana septentrionalis
American Bullfrog ouaouaron rana catesbeiana
Salamanders
There are seven species of salamander in the area of Eastern Ontario.