Frogs

Common frog

This is the time of the frogs. About 300 of them sang this morning, many of them in amplexus with females. Ekebydammen, April 22, 2023.

Common frog in chorus

In Sweden this is a very rare frog species almost only found along the northern coast of Uppland. It is red-listed as Vulnerable. This has been a  rather cold spring and not much activity as yet, but after a while a couple of frogs started calling at Bodalsträsket, Örskär, Uppland. May 20, 2023.

Pool frog in chorus

Lots of volunteers help toads and frogs across a busy city road so that they can go down to small city ponds for their lek. This year more than 2000 toads and frogs have been helped to cross the road!

Ekeby, Uppsala. April 18, 2025.
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Frogs and toads in a suburban pond

For those of you who have difficulties separating different species of frogs and toads, this recording has three of the most common ones included. There is a background "noise" of common frogs and the moor frog calls after 5, 14, 21 and 28 seconds, and after 38 seconds the common toad starts to sing.

Moor frog, common frog and common toad lekking

A cold midnight and less than 10 m from the Baltic Sea, a Green-spotted Toad is calling for mates.

Brantevik, Scania. May 12, 2025.
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Green-spotted Toad calling from a tidal pool at midnight

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.

Green-spotted Toad calling from a tidal pool at midnight

Bo Söderström