Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high. Volunteers surveying dormice and ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

Every year, thousands of common toads, frogs and newts awaken from their winter hibernation and make the perilous journey back to their ancestral breeding ponds. On mild, damp evenings between January ...