Red-spotted Toad vs. Western Toad
Both live at desert-edge springs and canyon streams in southern California; their records overlap there. A: Short and blunt, rounded off in the Red-spotted Toad; longer and more pointed in the Western Toad. B: Small and round, about the size of the eye in the Red-spotted Toad; big and oval, much longer than the eye in the Western Toad. C: Warts tipped red or orange, no stripe in the Red-spotted Toad; a pale stripe down the middle of the back in the Western Toad. The Red-spotted is the smaller and flatter of the two (up to 3 in) and calls with a long musical trill; the Western Toad peeps.
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