Rana catesbeiana
Size: to 6"
Habitat: prefers larger bodies of water
Notes: This big frog will eat almost anything that moves. They have been known to catch and eat birds.
Green frog (right) is similar but smaller. Neither of these frogs is likely to stray too far from water.
In this modern age of radio, these signal flags are a quaint anachronism that is no longer used, although they were once very important in ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship communications. Each flag stands for both a letter value and a shorthand message. The letters are expressed here in the modern international phonetic alphabet, in which A-B-C would be spoken Alpha-Bravo-Charlie (see below).
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