Distribution:
Blanchard’s Cricket Frogs are distributed across the tall and mixed grass prairie from Ohio west to Nebraska and south into Texas; however, they are absent from the northern tall and mixed grass prairie regions in their range.
In Nebraska they can currently be found in the eastern two-thirds of the state along all of the major streams and their tributaries.
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• Occurrence Summary:  
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Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Adams (3); Antelope (77); Blaine (1); Boone (14); Boyd (9); Brown (18); Buffalo (7); Burt (33); Butler (30); Cass (151); Cedar (119); Cherry (76); Colfax (3); Cuming (22); Dakota (5); Dawson (2); Dixon (40); Dodge (32); Douglas (32); Dundy (10); Franklin (13); Furnas (18); Gage (37); Garfield (5); Greeley (12); Hall (1); Hamilton (9); Hardin (1); Harlan (12); Harper (2); Hartley (2); Hitchcock (3); Holt (89); Howard (24); Jefferson (58); Johnson (6); Keya Paha (16); Knox (133); Lancaster (183); Lincoln (4); Loup (6); Madison (1); Merrick (27); Nance (6); Nemaha (22); Nuckolls (5); Otoe (22); Pawnee (19); Pierce (1); Platte (7); Polk (2); Richardson (82); Saline (4); Sarpy (107); Saunders (11); Seward (21); Sherman (4); Stanton (3); Thayer (7); Thomas (14); Unknown (17); Washington (33); Webster (38); Wheeler (3);

Natural History:
Blanchard’s Cricket Frogs are common along edges of both temporary and permanent bodies of water, where they exhibit the peculiar behavior of jumping into the water when startled only to swim quickly back to shore again. They can be found during daylight hours on shores with abundant vegetation where they gain protection from predators and the sun. During fall months, cricket frogs are commonly found a fair distance from water around the limestone ledges of southern Thayer, Jefferson, and Gage counties. This is a fairly cold-tolerant species, often found active early in spring before most other frogs and toads have emerged from hibernation. Males call from mats of aquatic vegetation or algae from mid-April through mid-June. The advertisement call sounds similar to two small pebbles colliding together – a sort of rik, rik, rik, rik-rik-rik-rik – that gets progressively faster in succession as the call proceeds. Eggs are laid in clusters attached to vegetation, and tadpoles have a distinctive black-tipped tail. Metamorphosed frogs are considerably large compared to those of other species. Recent studies have shown that cricket frogs in colder regions may not necessarily hibernate but instead use areas where microclimates stay humid but just above freezing. Although this frog is a member of the treefrog family Hylidae, it is predominantly a ground-dweller.

Occurrence Activity:

Chorusing:

Audio recording by Keith Coleman.

Chorusing Phenology: The black outlined dots denote the Julian date (day of the year; 1 January = 1 to 31 December = 365) an observation was made. The thin red line depicts the range of dates between the beginning of the first, and end of the fourth quartile (excluding outliers; Tukey method). The thick light blue bar represents the second and third quartile (interquartile range; the middle 50% of all observations). Only one observation per Julian date is included in the graphs; so a date with multiple observations carries the same weight as a date with only one observation. The vertical bars correspond to the 12 months of the year; January through December.
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