European Green Toad
Bufotes viridis
The adult is a hardy toad of open, often dry habitats such as steppe, gardens, quarries, fields, and urban edges, breeding in shallow still water. It hunts mostly at dusk and night, taking ants, beetles, flies, moths, and other invertebrates with sudden tongue strikes. When threatened it crouches, inflates, and releases toxic secretions from its skin and parotoid glands. Males give a long trilling call during the breeding season, a notable sound that can carry across ponds on warm nights.
- Type
- Venom
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- European Green Toad Tadpole
- European Green Toad Toadlet
- European Green Toad