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Mountain Chorus Frog

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Mountain Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris brachyphona) are 1 to 1.25 inches long.  They are brown, gray, or olive green in color.  They have a triangle shaped marking on top of the head, a light line on the upper lip, and 2 stripes in the shape of reverse parentheses on the back.

Females lay up to 400 eggs in clusters of 10 to 50 eggs attached to vegetation in ditches or shallow ponds.  It takes 2 months for tadpoles to grow into frogs.  This is a secretive little frog about which little is known.  They are most often observed when they gather at woodland pools in the early spring (March - May) to breed.  Males call from open areas during both day and night.  Adults are not often seen in the summer months and presumably live in the leaf litter and eat a variety of small invertebrates.

Mountain Chorus Frogs have a limited range.  They are primarily found in the central Appalachian Mountains (West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and a small portion of northeastern Tennessee), in central and northern Alabama, and in a small section of the north Georgia Mountains.  This species is found in woodlands and forested areas, usually on hillsides at elevations of 3500 feet or higher.   It prefers shallow bodies of water in which to breed, including spring and stream pools and ditches. 

Click below to hear the Mountain Chorus Frog.

Mountain Chorus Frog - Mark A. Dunaway

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