Hyla, the Spring Peeper LbNA #36960 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 28, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Milford |
| County: | Hillsborough |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | The CountryWalker  |
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| Found by: | J.E.S.S. |
| Last found: | Oct 3, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 28, 2007 |
THE HIDING PLACE FOR THIS LETTERBOX WAS DESTROYED AND THE LETTERBOX WAS TAKEN. IT WILL REREPLACED AND HIDDEN SOMEWHERE ELSE
Hyla, the Spring Peeper is a tree frog.
She is very tiny. Hardly one and a half inches long. Her color is tan to brown to gray with a dark X mark on the back. She has large toe pads.
She lives in wooded areas in or near permanent or temporarily flooded ponds and swamps. She hibernates under logs and loose bark.
The Spring Peeper is one of the most familiar frogs in the East, although its nighttime chorus -- one of the first signs of spring -- is heard far more often than the frog is seen. Her voice is a high-pitched ascending whistle, sometimes with a short trill, given once per second, in a multiple-frog chorus: PREEP-preep, PREEP-preep.
Like all tree frogs she is a reluctant jumper. She is arboreal and adapted to walking and climbing. Her toe tips are expanded into sticky adhesive pads used in climbing. Cartilage between the last two bones of each toe allows the tip of the toe to swivel backward and sideways while keeping the sticky toe pad flat against the climbing surface.
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It is there that you will find Hyla.
When you find Hyla, please feed her a spider.
Happy trails
Hyla, the Spring Peeper is a tree frog.
She is very tiny. Hardly one and a half inches long. Her color is tan to brown to gray with a dark X mark on the back. She has large toe pads.
She lives in wooded areas in or near permanent or temporarily flooded ponds and swamps. She hibernates under logs and loose bark.
The Spring Peeper is one of the most familiar frogs in the East, although its nighttime chorus -- one of the first signs of spring -- is heard far more often than the frog is seen. Her voice is a high-pitched ascending whistle, sometimes with a short trill, given once per second, in a multiple-frog chorus: PREEP-preep, PREEP-preep.
Like all tree frogs she is a reluctant jumper. She is arboreal and adapted to walking and climbing. Her toe tips are expanded into sticky adhesive pads used in climbing. Cartilage between the last two bones of each toe allows the tip of the toe to swivel backward and sideways while keeping the sticky toe pad flat against the climbing surface.
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It is there that you will find Hyla.
When you find Hyla, please feed her a spider.
Happy trails