Photo of the Day #623: American toad

i-fae75b05fb7ed42e16527d16263a81b8-Raccoon Ridge Hike June 09 044.JPG


An American toad (Bufo americanus), photographed along the Appalachian Trail in New Jersey.


More like this

After a little delay, it's time to embark once more into the World of Toads!!! Having previously looked at toads in general, and at the toads of Europe, we here continue the series by looking at yet more familiar, northern toads: this time at those of North America. As with some of the other '…
After a brief hiatus we return to the remarkable world of toads, and this time round we look at reproductive biology. As a western European person, the toad species I'm most familiar with (the Common toad Bufo bufo and Natterjack Epidalea calamita [see later articles for details on the name…
Raccoon tracks, photographed along a trail northern New Jersey.
Once more, we return to those wonderful, phenomenally successful, charismatic beasts.... the toads. As you'll know if you've read the previous articles in the toads series, it seems that most basal divergences within crown-Bufonidae happened in South America. So far as we can tell right now, crown…

I used to see toads and frogs all the time when I was little, even in the suburb areas, the walkways would be paved with them at night. However, I haven't seen a single frog or toad, night or day, in several years.