Rana aurora Northern Red-legged Frog
The California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii) was recently split off from this species.
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, CaliforniaJuly 23, 2001
Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora)
Although its California cousins are rare and growing rarer, this species seems to be thriving, at least in the various streams, ponds, and lakes that I visited on our summer trip. These three photos show three progressively larger individuals that I saw in different places on the same day. The first one pictured here was probably a tadpole not too long ago; it was about an inch long, living in a large pond. The second one was about 2 1/2 inches long, and was living in a stream. The third and fourth photos show the same nice big fat frog, about 4 inches long. It was leaping about on the forest floor in the general vicinity of a stream.
New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Coos County, OregonJuly 25, 2001
Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora)
Here's another fairly young frog, living in some really disgusting muck at the edges of the aptly-named Mud Lake.
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