Distribution:

The range of Woodhouse’s Toad spans from the northern plains of Montana and North Dakota south through Texas and west around the Rocky Mountains into Arizona and Utah. Isolated populations also exist in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. In Nebraska this Woodhouse's Toad occurs statewide and is abundant nearly everywhere it occurs.

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• Occurrence Summary:  
• 3,096
  Records 
• 3,096
  Museum Vouchers 
• 0
  Other Observations 

Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Adams (17); Antelope (15); Arthur (4); Atchison (1); Banner (13); Blaine (5); Box Butte (10); Boyd (70); Brown (49); Buffalo (79); Burt (16); Butler (6); Cass (133); Cedar (61); Chadron (1); Chase (12); Cherry (276); Cheyenne (2); Clay (6); Colfax (26); Cuming (7); Custer (14); Dakota (8); Dawes (53); Dawson (27); Deuel (6); Dixon (82); Dodge (26); Douglas (100); Dundy (17); Fillmore (7); Franklin (21); Frontier (17); Furnas (13); Gage (30); Garden (48); Garfield (13); Gosper (7); Grant (7); Greeley (2); Hall (93); Hamilton (18); Harlan (10); Hayes (1); Hitchcock (16); Holt (71); Hooker (8); Howard (6); Jefferson (26); Johnson (9); Kearney (62); Keith (153); Keya Paha (5); Kimball (8); Knox (43); Lancaster (252); Lincoln (57); Logan (7); Loup (8); Madison (23); McPherson (7); Merrick (33); Morill (4); Morrill (14); Nance (11); Nemaha (65); Nuckolls (2); Otoe (16); Pawnee (6); Perkins (2); Phelps (35); Pierce (15); Platte (20); Polk (10); Red Willow (10); Richardson (50); Rock (7); Saline (8); Sarpy (130); Saunders (72); Scotts Bluff (59); Seward (28); Sheridan (11); Sherman (41); Sioux (66); Stanton (4); Thayer (7); Thomas (21); Thurston (11); Unknown (27); Valley (9); Washington (67); Wayne (7); Webster (12); Wheeler (16); York (9);

Natural History:
Woodhouse’s Toads occupy woodland edges, grasslands, agricultural fields, parks, golf courses, and suburban back yards and gardens. They are often seen foraging beneath city street lights feeding on insects and other arthropods attracted to lights. Although they are more numerous in areas with sandy soil, they can be found in any habitat that is associated with water. Woodhouse’s Toads are the most commonly seen toads on the banks and sandbars of the Missouri, Platte, Niobrara, and Republican Rivers as well as all other streams in Nebraska. During mid-spring Woodhouse’s Toads will breed in flooded fields, irrigation ponds, back areas of lakes, and a number of other aquatic habitats. The voice is a nasal WAAAAAAAAHH that is similar to a calf’s or a sheep’s bleat and lasts only 3-4 seconds. Eggs are laid in long strings just like other toad species in Nebraska. Metamorphosis takes 5-7 weeks, and toadlets are common around ponds and streams throughout June and July. They are mostly nocturnal and more active on rainy or humid evenings; however, they also exhibit diurnal activity. Woodhouse’s Toads are active from April-October in Nebraska although activity levels decrease as fall approaches.

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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