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I need a little help with some searching. I am doing a research project for a class and I want to find some toads (other than the omnipresent gulf coast toads) here in South Texas- Corpus Christi to be exact. The only other toad I have ever found down here was a Texas Toad, and I think that was just a fluke. If anyone knows of places to find toads here, could you give me some hints? I hope that the small splattering of rain that we have been getting will pull some toads out of hiding. I would especially like to find some spadefoots. Thanks for your help,

Bryan

The best way is to go out on rainy nights an look on roads or even in fields or lawns. This week they should really be out in numbers if Emily gives you any good rain bands. Listen for the trill like calls in flooded roadside ditches, etc. On a good rainy night, you can find hundreds.

If you can drive around the farmland on the outskirts of corpus and during or right after some rain at night, you should see lots of them.

Around Corpus, you should be able to find
- Gulf Coast Toads
- Texas Toads
- Couch's Spadefoot

If you go a little further west or south you could add other species
- Giant Toads
- Eastern Green Toads
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Chris Harrison
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Chris is right. If you go down just about any county roads off 624 past Orange Grove you should find lots of spadefoots. Also look under rocks and wet cardboard to find narrowmouths around the city. Listen for tiny buzzing or sheep bleating in the ditches after rains.
Todd Hughes

Giant Narrowmouth.

Thanks fo the advice, guys. I went out last night and saw a bunch of tadpoles, but no toads. I found a Texas spotted whiptail sleeping under a board and thats about it. I heard some taods calling but the area they were in was somewhat inaccessible and they sounded like B. valliceps anyways. I think I will try up by Orange Grove tonight. I think they had more rain up there anyways. Thanks again, guy

Bryan