Herping With Dylan: Frog Calls

I am finally finished with the frog call video!

This was a very difficult video to make. I have been working on it since about March and many many hours later and like $200+ in gas, I am finally done.

I am very happy with the result. All the long nights filming really payed off.

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a few notes on the frogs:

-The Leopard Frogs I filmed I labeled as just the leopard frog instead of putting Southern or Plains because both species (Southern and Plains) breed in that area and often hybridize, so it is difficult to say for certain if it is one or that other... or both.

- The Bullfrogs actually had to end up being filmed at a different location than the rest of the frogs. There were plenty of bullfrogs there but they were so deep in the swamp and were so difficult to find and film due to how deep the water was, that I just filmed them at a pond.

- Common species that are absent in the video, like the Green Frog and the Green Treefrog were not included because they either do not breed at the location I was filming at (Green Treefrog) or because the population was not very strong there making it very difficult to find them calling (Green Frog). I would still like to add them in a separate video though.

- The eastern narrow-mouthed toad, being a threatened species in IL, are very susceptible to habitat loss. So we took a lot of caution when filming them so that they were not disturbed.

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Thanks again to everyone!
This video was a blast to make, but I know I put a few people (you know who you are) though some really boring nights sitting in a car waiting for me to finish filming.


All photographs used were taken by:
Dylan Cebulske & Amanda Stueckel

Music by: Streetlight Manifesto