{"id":507,"date":"2017-06-21T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allenisland\/?p=507"},"modified":"2017-06-21T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T01:23:33","slug":"allen-island-trip-report-for-31-may-2017-2-june-2017-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/2017\/06\/21\/allen-island-trip-report-for-31-may-2017-2-june-2017-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Island Trip report for 31 May 2017-2 June 2017 &#8211; FROGS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date Start<\/strong>\u2014May 31, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Date End<\/strong>\u2014June 2, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Participants<\/strong>\u2014 Colby: Cathy and Louis Bevier, Bonje Obua, Corin Balan<br \/>\nUnity College: Cheryl Frederick, Tom Aversa, Greg LeClair, Rachel Bidek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brief Description: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Our first research trip of 2017 for the Colby College\/Unity College Amphibian Health project was a success; we are feeling confident about our sampling design to explore the intrinsic and extrinsic influences on amphibian health using Green <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allenisland\/files\/2017\/06\/Frog-hunters-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/files\/2017\/06\/Frog-hunters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/files\/2017\/06\/Frog-hunters-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/files\/2017\/06\/Frog-hunters-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Frogs (<em>Lithobates clamitans) <\/em>as our model. We spent Wednesday scoping out the 14 ponds on Allen Island, and these vary widely in size and habitat features. Most of the ponds support a healthy population of Green Frogs and ultimately we\u2019ll designate three of these as our official sampling ponds for the Allen Island populations.&nbsp; Wednesday and part of Thursday were somewhat overcast or windy for the majority of the day. This certainly influenced how obvious or easy the frogs were to find and capture. The males were a lot more vocal under sunny and warm conditions. In keeping up with overall phenology of wildlife, bird migration was winding down, and several species are in nesting mode. Early-nesting birds, such as Killdeer, American Robin, and Red Crossbill, already are feeding young.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Louis\u2019s eBird lists:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>31 May morning:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37290356\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37290356<\/a><\/p>\n<p>31 May afternoon:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37294294\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37294294<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 June all day:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37316216\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37316216<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date Start\u2014May 31, 2017 Date End\u2014June 2, 2017 Participants\u2014 Colby: Cathy and Louis Bevier, Bonje Obua, Corin Balan Unity College: Cheryl Frederick, Tom Aversa, Greg LeClair, Rachel Bidek Brief Description: &nbsp;&nbsp;Our first research trip of 2017 for the Colby College\/Unity College Amphibian Health project was a success; we are feeling confident about our sampling design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/islandcampus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}