Mink Frog

Mink Frogs are generally green to brown, often spotted or mottled. Their preferred habitat is quiet waters with lots of plants like lily pads and pickerel weed.

The height of the breeding season is in July. Males take their place at suitable spawning sites among the surface vegetation and begin calling a mate. The male calls day and night with a repeated "cut - cut-cut" sound. When a number of frogs are vocal it sounds like a couple of carpenters nailing shingles on a house somewhere in the distance. Females produce about 1,000 eggs each year. The tadpoles overwinter and transform the next July and August.

Uniacke Lake Frog

Mink Frog Habitat

Mink Frogs are very timid. Some careful sneaking is required to get close to one. Usually all you see is the water surface breaking in a number of places as they skid off vegetation and hide underneath. The best time to watch them is at night, because they tend to stay still while a flashlight beam is on them.

Mink Frogs eat a variety of land and water creatures, particularly ants, beetles, bugs, moth larvae, spiders and flies.

When picked up, they emit a smell like a mink (or rotting onions, if you can't quite recall the odour of mink).