Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Celebrating the surprising biodiversity of a county sometimes relegated to being thought of as just cornfields! Will be adding to this incrementally with confirmed observations of all forms of life in Lee County, using sources such as INHS, several guides, natural area catalogs, and of course ...more ↓

American Toad 1
Anaxyrus americanus
Blanchard's Cricket Frog 2
Acris blanchardi
Spring Peeper 3
Pseudacris crucifer
Boreal Chorus Frog 4
Pseudacris maculata
Cope's Gray Tree Frog 5
Hyla chrysoscelis
Gray Tree Frog 6
Hyla versicolor
American Bullfrog 7
Lithobates catesbeianus
Green Frog 8
Lithobates clamitans
Pickerel Frog 9
Lithobates palustris
Northern Leopard Frog 10
Lithobates pipiens
Tiger Salamander 11
Ambystoma tigrinum
Central Newt 12
Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis

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