Amphibian Links

My frog book

Amphibian information on this site

• Frogs and toads of Humboldt County, California
  
  
• Frogs and toads of the Chicago Region gives an overview of Chicago Region habitats and their associated amphibian fauna. Contains the "Frogs' Eye View of Chicago," a generalized 1800s map of habitats published by the North Branch Prairie Project.
  
  
• Chicago Region Amphibians by County summarizes the state of knowledge about the distribution and status of Chicago region amphibians, August 20, 2000.
  
  
• Amphibian Studies in the Chicago Wilderness provides an overview of past and present studies to 2000.
  
  
• Why Study Amphibians? A brief description of why survey work is important and how it fits into the big picture.
  
  
• Translations of the scientific names of frogs and toads. Look up all those pesky Latin and Greek words.
  
  
• The 1902 Folio of Chicago Geology online. Read about early 20th Century geology of the region.

Links to midwestern amphibian sites

• The Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois from state herpetologist Chris Phillips. Click on a county to get a list of species for which vouchered specimens are known.
• The Chicago Herpetological Society. Photographs of local amphibians and reptiles.
• Chicago Wilderness Frog Survey guide to Chicagoland frogs.
• Chicago Wilderness site. Type "frogs" in the search box for the most recent information.
• Central Illinois Herpetological Society. Pictures, links and resources for Illinois' herpetologists.
• Frogs and toads of Missouri. Great photos by Tom R. Johnson.
• Wisconsin frog and toad survey page is mostly text, but helpful if you want to read scientific methods and goals for northern U.S. frog counting.
• Michigan DNR page. Type "frog and toad surveys" for all stories on their ongoing frog counting project which started in 1999.

National and international amphibian links

• Amphibians of the World, greatest amphibian spellchecker ever, invented and maintained by Darryl Frost.
• Key to US and Canadian tadpoles.
• Sounds of North American Frogs and Toads. The wonderful Charles Bogert's recordings and comments originally released around the same time as Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."
• The official USGS Amphibian Checklist.
• Translations of the scientific names of frogs and toads of North America.
• AmphibiaWeb. More than one hundred species accounts up and running, the goal is to have up-to-date status reports and links for all anurans.
• HerpDigest: A Free Electronic Newsletter on Reptile and Amphibians is published weekly.
• Center for Global Environmental Education - A Thousand Friends of Frogs. Mostly a links page but well maintained and up to the minute.
• Action plan for Australian frogs by Michael J. Tyler.
• Frogs of Victoria, Australia with photos.
• Frogs on stamps from Japan show an interesting range of worldwide species.
• Short book reviews on all current frog titles from AllAboutFrogs.com.

For Fun

• Froggyville. An interesting site which includes live cams on amphibians.
• For fun, visit this cute frog site by Sheila Crown, a serious frog collector in England.
• A shoe company, famous for square toed shoes has developed a taste for square toads, too. Their goal on the funny section of their site is to "Unite all the toads of the world, one amphibian at a time. The site has an Ode to a Toad section, toad links, toad products, toad collectibles, and - of course - the square toed shoes, the play on words that started the site."
• Arkansas' famous "Toad Suck Days" Come wet your toad while you wait for your barge to float. Or at least that's the tradition.