Over the last fortnight or so, toads have been congregating throughout Clackmannanshire on favoured ancestral breeding ponds for their ...

Toads, frogs and newts are carefully picked ... with milder winters leading to them waking up from hibernation more ...

A community wildlife event has achieved a record-breaking milestone this year, with a total of 876 toads spotted this year—marking the highest count in the event's history.

It highlights how species like the spadefoot toad, bats, and ground squirrels adapt by entering states of dormancy such as estivation and hibernation. The documentary illustrates the physiological ...

Common toads hibernate in October, typically under deep leaf litter, logs, timber piles, or in burrows and drainpipes and tend to live away from water except during the breeding season.

THE success of toad rescue patrols in the Otley area has been repeated this spring. For hundreds of years the onset of warmer weather has resulted in hundreds of toads leaving hibernation at dusk and ...