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

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Herping
• With
• Dylan
• Frog
• Calls
• Amphibians
• Breeding
• Spring
• Peeper
• Bullfrog
• Chorus
• Narrow-mouthed
• Toad
• Treefrog
• Cricket
• wildlife

[Rubenwbrk]

Bullfrog's are my favorite! :D

[HerpVideo]

Great job! I know this must have taken many hours to get this video. I have been unsuccessful at recording many of these. You might want to consider the possibility that your gray tree frog is a cope's gray tree frog. It sounds a little fast to be a grey tree frog. The call is the only way to distinguish them in the field.

[TheMaredyth]

i have a gray tree frog lol

[toadranger50]

Well done, you should be pursuing a career in the field of biology. You have a passion for it !

[Volumegirl86]

This is awesome! I used this to study for my Herpetology class. Thanks so much =)

[jojesaky16]

american toads sound like dial-up

[HDSuperHD]

my favorite 1 is at 5:39 to 5:41

[MrRcheek]

great job ! thanks for your dedication !!!

[rebargnome]

wow this is the greatest

I live in connecticut next to a wetland area and we have many of the same species so when I watched this I could recognize the calls of ones that I have heard behind my house on many nights. In early spring when it gets warm and the peepers get cranked up we refer to it as the "roar of the peepers".

kudos

[Davemo70]

Very professional .. Great job kid