Woodhouse's Toad (Bufo woodhousei)

Adult Size: 2½" to 5"

Description: A large toad with a light stripe down the middle of the back. Prominent cranial crests contaact elongated parotoids. Coloration is yellow to green to brown.

Voice: Like the bleat of a sheep with a cold. males call while sitting in quiet water.

Habitat: Sandy areas near marshes, irrigation ditches, backyards, and temporary rain pools.

Breeding: March to August. Egg strings are attached to vegetation in shallow water.

Range: Widespread throughout most of the United States.

Diet:

Behavior: Primarily nocturnal, it is the toad commonly seen at night catching insects beneath lights. Occasionally it is active during the day, but more frequently remoains in its burrow or hides in vegetation.

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Subspecies: Four in our range.

Woodhouse's Toad (B.w. woodhousei) - spotted on the back with a light stripe to the snout and the chest is unspotted. Found in eastern Montana and North Dakota, south through the plains states to central Texas, and west of the Rocky Mountains from Idaho south to Colorado and Arizona, with isolated populations in western Texask southeastern California and the Oregon-Washington border. Photo...

Southwestern Woodhouse's Toad (B.w. australis) - spotted back with a light stripe that does not reach the snout, the chest is also spotted. Found in central Colorado through New Mexico and Arizona, to Sonora Mexico, and along the Rio Grande drainage into southwestern Texas and adjacent Mexico. Photo...

Eastn Texas Toad (B.w. velatus) - the back is dark and the chest spotted. Found in northeastern Texas. Photo...

Fowler's Toad (B.w. fowleri) - the back is blotched and the chest is unspotted. Found in Lake Michigan east through most of Pennsylvania to southeastenr New York and southern New England, south to the Gulf coast (excluding coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and most of Florida), west to eastern Texas and north to Missouri and southern Illinois. Photo...