AMPHIBIAN WATCH: Help monitor frogs and toads in your 
area ... we'll tell you how on Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas Amphibian Watch is a statewide volunteer 
program ... in which citizen scientists monitor frogs and 
toads ... in an attempt to fend off the extinction of species 
currently in decline. Here's how it's done: 	

There are different levels of monitoring. The easiest of which is 
whenever you see an amphibian, you write down the time of day, 
the weather, the rough location, and then once a year you send 
that in to Parks and Wildlife and they'll add that into one 
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Scott Kiester, Texas Amphibian Watch volunteer. If you 
prefer listening to amphibians as opposed to looking at 
them, there's a way you can make a contribution.

There's a program called 'Adopt a Pond,' where you agree to go 
and listen and record the species you hear at a specific location. 
Once a month, sometimes more often than that, I'll take 15 
minutes and go out in the evening and listen to who's out in the 
neighborhood croaking away. Frogs are a lot more active and do 
a lot more calling in that period of time after a rain, particularly if 
you can do it the day after a rain or if you get a rain in the 
afternoon go out and do it that evening. They just croak away. 
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Hop on over to the calendar section of the Texas Parks & 
Wildlife website to find upcoming Amphibian Watch 
workshops.

That's our show for today ... with research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti