Bullfrog
Rana catesbeiana
Bullfrog
(RealAudio sound sample)
The male's advertisment call is a series of loud, resonant bass notes sounding like "rumm, rumm, rumm," or else a stuttering "ru-u-u-umm, ru-u-u-umm" (often verbalized as "jug-o-rum" and somewhat resembling the bellowing of a bull.) A widespread species found throughout the East. Calls from shallow water along shorelines or from offshore patches of floating or emergent vegetation. May be heard from May to August in the north; late winter to autumn in the south.
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