Wyoming Toad 1

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Title Wyoming Toad 1
Common Name Wyoming Toad
Scientific Name Bufo baxteri
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Bufonidae
Genus Bufo
Subject Amphibians; Places; Nature sounds
Spatial Coverage Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge (Wyo.); Albany County (Wyo.); Wyoming
Frog Call Breeding Season: May-July
Creator US Fish and Wildlife Service
Media Rights Management Audio file courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date 1989-06-08
Type Sound
Format video/mp4
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description Toad breeding calls at Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge; "Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) supports the last known breeding population of the endangered Wyoming toad. The Refuge encompasses 1,776 acres and is located southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. The four main lakes on the Refuge are associated with a series of high elevation lakes called the 'Laramie plains lakes.'"- Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service; According to the conservation data center NatureServe, "In June 2002, a survey at Mortenson Lake NWR yielded 124 yearlings and 4 adults (USFWS 2002). Limited natural reproduction and recruitment of a few metamorphosed juveniles ocurred in 2002 (USFWS 2002)." See: http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101600
Photo Rights Management Photo courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101600
ARK ark:/87278/s6jm2pvx
Setname uu_wss
ID 1117597
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jm2pvx