Bird-Voiced Treefrog
Hyla avivoca
Union Co., Illinois. May 1996.
A creature of wooded swamps, avivoca is now protected in Illinois, where it occurs in a few of the southern counties where its habitat is preserved.
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Bird-Voiced Treefrog Union Co., Illinois. May 1996. |
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The frog chorus
in La Rue Scatters, any night in May or June. Green Treefrogs
dominate with their overlapping rounds of queenk queenk; the banjo
plucks of Green Frogs, the Bullfrog's throaty bellow, Grey Treefrogs from
up in the willows and tupelos, and somewhere out there in the dark, ten feet
or a hundred yards away, a lone Bird-Voiced calls. seep-seep-seep it
goes.
A creature of wooded swamps, avivoca is now protected in Illinois, where it occurs in a few of the southern counties where its habitat is preserved.
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