The Frogs and Toads of North America, a review
The Frogs and Toads of North America by Lang Elliott, Carl Gerhardt and Carlos Davidson is a guidebook to frogs and toads, their sounds and behavior. It is like a field guide because it tells you about the different species of frogs, how to identify them and it has range maps to tell you where the frogs can be found. It is different from our other field guides because it is soft cover. The pictures are on the same page as the descriptions. It doesn’t show you different parts of the frog with identification clues on the pictures like other guides, but instead has beautiful, full-page photographs.
It is not a book I would take to the lake to help me identify frogs. It is almost like a cross between a field guide and a coffee table book because the photos are so beautiful.
It has a CD at the back of the book. It tells you each kind of frog in the book with the sound it makes. That helps you identify frogs by their noises. Some species look very similar, but can be told apart by their song. Also when you go out at night, you cannot always see the frogs around you but if you know their songs, you can identify them by that.
My favorite part of the book is the pictures.
We have found four of the kinds of frogs in the book: the bullfrog, the leopard frog, the Cope’s gray tree frog and the woodland toad.
