What are the native species of frog?
The California red-legged frog is native to this area. It’s been on the endangered-species list since 1996, and it’s been wiped out from 70 percent of its habitat. It’s only half the size of a bullfrog, and many people want to protect them. The California red-legged frog is the jumping frog that Mark Twain wrote about in his famous short story. The red-legged frog was also used as food by Californians in the 1800s. About 80,000 were eaten annually. Bullfrogs were only brought into California because people had eaten up a large percentage of the red-legged frogs. There is also a tree frog that is actually a toad. It is usually found hiding by trees, in the grass. The difference between frogs and toads is that toads more commonly live on land, and frogs have more webbing in their feet, for swimming. How many bullfrogs are in Birch Lake? I’d guess that there are easily 200 bullfrogs here, and sometimes there are thousands and thousands of pollywogs. In September, after all the visitors ar
