Some amphibians, such as common toads, hardly visit ponds except to lay eggs, whereas smooth newts spend much of early summer in a pond before creeping ... Many ponds are being polluted with harmful ...

A temporary pond might fill and empty over time. In the UK, some glacial ponds or depressions that ... The common frog can travel up to five hundred metres from its breeding pond. The common toad ...

Its other common ... newts spend a significant portion of their lives in hibernation, usually from around October to March of each year. On a rainy night in March, they awaken and trek back to the ...

Common frogs are well adapted to pond habitats. They can spend equal amounts of time in and out of the water, and often visit garden ponds across the UK in search of slugs and snails. In winter ...

Henry Stanier was on the hunt for newts. As the Great Fen Monitoring and ... “The survey method involves sinking the traps in a pond the day before and then collecting them the following morning ...