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Red-spotted toad        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Red-spotted toads are residents of many dry regions in the southwestern US, where their loud, trilling mating calls are characteristic of warm spring and summer nights around pools and ponds.   These were out foraging on a warm March night in the Deep Canyon research center near Palm Desert, California.

  • Canon 30D, 100/2.8 macro lens, electronic flash (2007)