- Cardinalis cardinalis
- Animalia: Chordata: Aves: Passeriformes: Fringillidae
This pie chart shows the relative likelihood of observing particular other species commonly observed near Hyla squirella
These species are those which most commonly occur in our observation database near Hyla squirella. Observations favor some phyla over others. Typically Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, and Arthropods are more common in the field than in our records.
This species is known from Coastal Plain of the eastern USA from southeastern Virginia to Florida Keys, west to southeastern Texas (Conant and Collins, 1991). There are isolated occurrences in Mississippi, North Carolina, and northern Virginia. It is introduced on Grand Bahama Island and Little Bahama Bank (Schwartz and Henderson, 1991).[1]
Countries:Native:
United States
It can be found among trees or shrubs, in open pine woods, in swamps, under leaf litter, or even around housesAdults can be found hiding under bark, in hollow tree holes, or really anywhere that is close to moisture and food. This frog is nocturnal, hiding in vegetation during the daytime. . At night it is common around outdoor lights where it hunts insects.
Open woods, cities, and towns; thick low vegetation near water; wherever there is adequate moisture, hiding places, nearby standing water, and insect food. When inactive, hides under loose bark, palm leaves, in tree holes, in gardens, and in other protected sites. There is a non-breeding "rain call" given by males from trees and bushes when rainfall is impending. Eggs and larvae develop in flooded roadside ditches, flat woods ponds, swamps, and small, semi permanent stock-watering ponds. Males call from debris and twigs above water, on ground near water, or hidden in grass clumps adjacent to permanent or temporary rain pools of moderate depth (Schwartz and Henderson 1991).[1]
In sections below, we make some habitat inferences based on the known habitat preferences of those species most commonly associated with Hyla squirella.
alpine, montane, subtropics, temperate.
boreal forest, coniferous forests, croplands, cultivated areas, deciduous woods and forests, desert, disturbed sites, fence rows, fields, forest edges, forests, gardens, grasslands, hammocks, hardwood forests, mature forests, meadows, mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, moist woods, open forests, pasture, pine barrens, pine forests, rain forest, shrubby vegetation, swamp forests, thickets, tropical forest, tundra grassland.
flood plains, hillsides, pastureland, roadsides, rock outcrops, streamsides, urban areas, valleys.
clay, marl, sandy areas, sandy soil, siliceous cliffs.
along rivers, bays, bogs, brackish water, ditches, dry areas, estuaries, flood plains, lagoon, lakes, marshes, mesic areas, moist woodlands, pelagic, ponds, rivers, saltwater, shores, stream banks, streams, subtidal sandy, swamps, swampy areas, wet savannas, wet woods.
hillsides, ravines.