Tiger Salamander Exodus...PICS...

21 years ago

Mike and I went to sein a pond a week ago and we netted 20+ larvae of the Barred Tiger Salamander (Abystoma mavortium) in about twenty minutes. We were pleased to have seen so many mavortium, but we were unsatisfied not to have seen any adults. We have been waiting for a good evening storm to come through our area so that we could drive the roads and search for them. One such storm came through last night.

At about 10:30 PM we set out to cruise for Tigers in the pouring rain. At approx. 10:40 we came across a DOR. Over the next fifteen minutes we found 3 young adult mavortium, 1 older adult and 3 more DORs. We were never more then four miles from our house and we went home after the 4th AOR.

Here are some pics of the 4 AOR Tigers...

I hope you all enjoyed...

chad

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kcmatt
21 years ago
I already posted on this but it deserves another congrats.

I went out in the rain too with my boy and we found dozens of toads-- one monster pushing 4". Jay wanted to pick up every one we saw and look it over-- he was expert, on them before they knew what was coming. We also saw several gray treefrogs, one of them very large too. Other common frogs seen also.
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