Agile Frog - Rana dalmatina

The Agile Frog Rana dalmatina may be encountered from time to time in fields and woodland clearings in the spring and summer. For an excellent species account, see HerpFrance.com, including key features for identification and a recording of the call. It is nowhere near as common as the Green Frog Pelophylax spp group, but seems to be more common that the Common Frog Rana temporaria, which isn't common at all in this area.

In French they are called la Grenouille agile. Like all amphibians here, it is a protected species.

Agile Frog photographed in a field the Brenne, April.

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