Last year about 300 toads were rescued, with some populations in the Stroud area becoming extinct.
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Volunteers say most drivers respond positively when told about the toads, and some return as volunteers.
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Ringwood Amphibian Conservationists runs an annual patrol by volunteers who assist the toads with the crossing.
Fischer, who runs Lightning Toads with his brother Alan, juggled Hausbarn along with other mobile game projects.
"Toads migrate usually on damp, dark evenings when it's mild and often when it's wet, " she added.
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Volunteers would also carry toads, frogs and newts in buckets because many were unable to climb the kerbs.
Volunteers are being sought to save hundreds of amorous toads from being killed on a road in Hampshire.
In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.
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Every year in Edington near Westbury amorous toads are killed by cars as they return to local breeding sites.
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Male toads tend to linger on the road to get a better view of females emerging from the hedges.
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Finally, on Easter Sunday, more than 40 toads were spotted crossing the street.
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Volunteer Rachelle Aquilla was slightly disappointed because she wasn't seeing any toads on the nights she showed up for work.
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Common toads cross Gorley Road in Ringwood to spawn in nearby lakes, from early March until the end of April.
Another entrant, called Hausbarn, comes from Ames, Iowa-based software company Lightning Toads.
Common toads are believed to be declining across the UK because of habitat loss, according to amphibian and reptile conservation group Froglife.
"I've been walking up and down looking for the toads, " she said.
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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.
The dunes surrounding Talacre Beach are a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest(SSSI) and act as a haven for wildlife including Natterjack toads.
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At the Coach party, Mr. Wilkinson was wearing a blazer featuring gold buttons in the shape of toads in homage to Elsie de Wolfe.
Ms Swabey is now looking for volunteers willing to collect the migrating toads in a bucket and carry them across the road to safety.
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Over the spawning season, which runs from the end of March to mid-April, hundreds of toads make the journey back to two breeding ponds in Edington.
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In England, the Surrey Amphibian and Reptile Group deploys volunteers to about 35 different sites southwest of London to help toads cross the road each spring.
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The council said it decided to close the road again because the lake is an important nature reserve and it is committed to protecting the toads.
The toads cross the road at night, and Froglife said there are about 880 spawning sites in the UK that require a road to be crossed.
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.
The famed investor, Warren Buffet, once said that many corporate acquirers think of themselves as beautiful princesses, sure that their kisses can turn toads into handsome princes.
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The toads' destination: their birthplace in the Roxborough Reservoir, which once provided drinking water to Philadelphians and is now preserved as open space in the city's park system.
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Among their aims are the revival of stalled development sites such as Toads Hole Valley and Preston Barracks in Brighton and Hove and Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven port.
Part of the reason for this decline is that many toads become homeless each year as wild ponds are lost due to road building, development, pollution, intensive farming and drought.
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