Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge (Wyo.); Albany County (Wyo.); Wyoming
Frog Call
Breeding Season: May-July
Creator
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Media Rights Management
Audio file courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date
1989-06-08
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description
Toad breeding calls at Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge; "Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) supports the last known breeding population of the endangered Wyoming toad. The Refuge encompasses 1,776 acres and is located southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. The four main lakes on the Refuge are associated with a series of high elevation lakes called the 'Laramie plains lakes.'"- Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service; According to the conservation data center NatureServe, "In June 2002, a survey at Mortenson Lake NWR yielded 124 yearlings and 4 adults (USFWS 2002). Limited natural reproduction and recruitment of a few metamorphosed juveniles ocurred in 2002 (USFWS 2002)." See: http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101600
