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Natterjack Toad - Bufo calamita
Family - Bufonidae
(New Forest Herpetological Center May 2000)
Photo ©2000
This Natterjack Toad is not a species found in Brickfields Country Park, however the information here is correct as Natterjack Toad - Bufo calamita. This page has been left on the Brickfields Park site to maintain any links that point to it from elsewhere on the web.
Distributed throughout Europe, but extremely local and endangered in the United Kingdom. Only found in very few sites in Southern and Eastern England, Southern Scotland and South Western Ireland. Found on sandy heathland where it breeds in shallow pools. Flattened body shape with bright yellow stripe down the centre of its back.
They gather together to spawn during March to May laying approximately 1000 eggs in strings, often after heavy rain, most active at night with the males being very vocal. hibernates over winter in deep holes. Eats small animals. Grows to between 6–8cm (2.3–3.2in), adult toads reputedly smell of Garlic.
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