Sound Gallery - Couch's Spadefoot Toad

Portrait of a Couch's Spadefoot Toad on sandy ground in Saguaro National Park, Arizona

NPS / James Borgmeyer

• Couch's Spadefoot Toad

  
  

  This sound was recorded at Saguaro National Park in Arizona.

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  NPS

  Audio Transcript

  The squelching ribbiting sound of Couch's Spadefoot Toads with background sounds of crickets chirping at night.

Spectrogram _ Couch's Spadefoot Toad. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram shows repeated loud mid- to higher-frequency croaks

Natural Sounds & Night Skies Division / NPS

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