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| The small 2-4 cm Striped Chorus Frog is light brown with three dark brown and occasionally broken stripes down the back. The Chorus frog is one of Algonquin Highlands’ earliest breeders and may be heard calling in March or April. The one-second call, a short, scratchy "cree-ee-ee-ee-eek", is repeated several times and sounds like a thumb running quickly along the teeth of a plastic comb. Males call from clumps of grasses or from the water while supported by floating clumps of vegetation. Young frogs forage in open woodlands and fields and prey upon beetles, flies, and mosquitoes. Chorus Frogs are rarely seen during the summer but may call again for a brief period in the fall. By breeding so early in the season the Striped Chorus Frog avoids some predators. After mating, females lay 500-1500 eggs in loose clusters of up to 300, each attached to submerged grasses or twigs. The eggs hatch in 3-14 days and the tadpoles transform into tiny froglets 40-90 days later. |
(Family Hylidae)
Pseudacris triseriata
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