Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)

Created: December 18th, 2007 - 06:48 PM
Last Modified: November 30th, 2009 - 11:19 AM Entered by: Matthew Ignoffo
Record 7795

Country: United States		State: Illinois	County:	Time: 2007-04-29 21:00:00
Qty: 1	Age: --	Sex: --	Method: Heard	Habitat: Flooded field
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: -----	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Overcast		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: -----	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

One of my most exciting records. A small chorus of peepers heard in the corner of a flooded field on private property. Central Kane County, few minutes walk from the house I grew up in. Incidentally, 20+ years ago in a small nearby floodplain I would hear massive choruses of peepers in March/April. Construction dried this area up and the frogs disappeared in a matter of only a couple years. Until this, I had not heard peepers within 20 miles. I have to wonder how large this chorus may had been a few weeks earlier.