An even larger species is the hellbender, a big fleshy salamander of river bottoms. In New York, only a few drainages along the southern border are home to hellbenders. Red-spotted newts begin life as ...

Take “bat tunnels”, the structures designed to help bats safely navigate developments which recently drew the chancellor’s ...

The newt survey is done between 1 April and 30 May. See the website for the full survey protocols. Equipment: Torch, pond net. You will need good amphibian identification skills and some experience of ...

Frogs and newts find temporary ponds a welcome place to breed ... such as the common frog. Urban ponds tend to have fewer species living in them than rural ponds, unless they’ve been planted with a ...

You will often find amphibians in garden ponds and lakes where the ... like frogs, toads and newts, they're amphibians. Axolotls are a species of amphibian native to Mexico but are now rare ...