In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.

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Others suggest that it is the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such as frogs and toads and of their spawn.

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Albino individuals of adult frogs, toads and newts are considered to be very rare and cases of multiple albinistic individuals in a breeding population are even rarer.

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The chytrid fungus, or BD as it is sometimes called, infects the skins of amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts and interferes with their ability to absorb water.

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Volunteers would also carry toads, frogs and newts in buckets because many were unable to climb the kerbs.

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