Chorus frog - Pseudacris maculata

Adult chorus frog in wet grass

Description:

  • 0.75-1.5 inches total length
  • Found in sandy lowland flood plains and moist upland areas
  • Hidden in daytime, hunts at night
  • Breed in temporary pools of river floodplains
  • Feed on a variety of small terrestrial arthropods

Interesting fact:

  • On Konza Prairie, these small frogs breed in shallow upland pools formed when bison wallows fill with spring rain.

Range map in Kansas:

Map of Kansas with counties containing chorus frogs in purple.

More images:

Recently metamorphed juvenile and eggs attached to plant below.

Very young chorus frog, recently metamorphosed from tadpole

Eggs of a chorus frog attached to plant material in the water