Animals / Amphibian

Spring peeper

Pseudacris crucifer · Hylidae

The spring peeper is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and eastern Canada. It prefers permanent ponds due to its advantage in avoiding predation; however, it is very adaptable with respect to the habitat it can live in. In northern regions, the frog is able to endure below freezing temperatures due to the capacity of its liver to exude and flush the bloodstream with a glucose cryoprotectant which acts both as an anti-freeze in its blood, and allows organs like the heart to enter into a state of protected dormancy.

Where the Spring peeper lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Ontario, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Québec and Pennsylvania.

See the Spring peeper’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 70,749 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.