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Gray Treefrog
Hyla versicolor
- A small 3-5 cm treefrog.
- Light green to grey color with a squarish white spot below
the eye
- Inner thigh is bright orange or yellow
- This frog is identifiable by its large and expanded toe
disks.
- Gray treefrogs are found in woodlands and marshes during
the summer. They show a distinct preference for wetlands
ringed with shrubs, especially willow and dogwood.
- They breed in marshes, ponds and the still backwaters of
streams in the spring.
- Male grey treefrogs are very territorial and will
defend their calling perches with encounter calls, shoving,
kicking, and jumping.
- Eggs are laid singly or in groups and are attached to
submerged plants. Because the eggs are laid late in the spring
and early summer, tadpoles hatch and mature very quickly and
usually transform by late August or early September.

Description of call: a short trill
treefrog.wav - use this link to download the sound file if your browser does not support embedded files.
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