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Spring Peeper Light brown skin with darker markings, including a distinctive X-shaped mark on its back. It can darken or lighten it&#039;s skin color to better camouflage itself in only a few minutes. This one was approximately 1 cm long.<br /> <br /> Spring peepers make a natural anti-freeze, which allows them to survive freezing temperatures while hibernating. Geotagged,Pseudacris,Pseudacris crucifer,Spring Peeper,Spring peeper,Summer,United States,frog,peeper Click/tap to enlarge

Spring Peeper

Light brown skin with darker markings, including a distinctive X-shaped mark on its back. It can darken or lighten it's skin color to better camouflage itself in only a few minutes. This one was approximately 1 cm long.

Spring peepers make a natural anti-freeze, which allows them to survive freezing temperatures while hibernating.

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The Spring peeper

The spring peeper is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and Canada. They are so called because of their chirping call that marks the beginning of spring.

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Similar species: Frogs
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Mar 6, 2018. Captured Jul 23, 2016 10:11 in 281 Main St S, Woodbury, CT 06798, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 60D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 300mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.