Frogs and Toads

Wood Frog

Lithobates sylvatica

3.5 cm frog
brown, tan or copper in color.
A triangular black face mask on each side of its head
There is a white line on the upper jaw
Usually found in Woodlands.
Ponds must have emergent vegetation such as willows, sedges or winter-killed cattails to which the eggs can be attached.
The wood frog is the only North American amphibian found north of the Arctic Circle.
The wood frog is our earliest spring breeder. Males, with their duck-like quacking, can be heard in the last week of March and the first week of April.
Eggs hatch in 1-2 weeks, and tadpoles generally transform into adults in sixty days.
Young frogs feed on mosquitoes, beetles, spiders, and flies.
The wood frog is sometimes found in abundance in woodlands throughout Ontario.
In urban areas, the thinning of woodlots, filling of ponds and lowering of water tables have reduced populations to a few widely separated sites.