Standard English Name(s): Pacific treefrog, Pacific chorus frog
Local English Name(s): "spring peeper"
Scientific Name(s): Pseudacris regilla (Baird and Girard) (syn. Hyla regilla Baird and Girard)
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Description, Habitat, Ecology, & Distribution:
     Generally speaking, treefrogs are typically small, slim-wasted, and long-legged frogs that jump and can climb vegetation by virtue of adhesive pads on their toes. Our local treefrog is one of the tiniest frogs in British Columbia (from 25-50 mm long, with females being larger than the males) and is further distinguished as the only local frog to have prominent toe pads. Individual treefrogs are capable of changing their colour from light green (in warm, dry conditions) to dark brown (in cold, damp conditions) and all shades in between. Pacific treefrogs also possess a prominent dark stripe extending on both sides of the body from the snout back to the shoulder. They inhabit open woods and forest margins where they may be found clambering about amidst the stems and foliage of shrubby vegetation. They are distributed throughout the southern one-third of British Columbia (and the entire Halkomelem territory) and have been introduced into the Queen Charlotte Islands. Their diet consists of a wide variety of crawling and flying insects.
     Like its eastern cousin, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied), the Pacific treefrog is known to produce a loud and distinctive mating call during the breeding season in the spring. For this reason, this species is alternately known as the Pacific chorus frog and "spring peeper."

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