Red backed Salamanders are one of the most common vertebrates in New England. But you need to be willing to look under rocks and logs in moist areas of the forest in order to see them.
Unlike many salamanders that lay their eggs in ponds, or streams, they lay their eggs on the ceiling of their underground burrows in grape-like clusters. When the eggs hatch, the young look like miniatures of the adults, they go through the tadpole stage right inside the egg!
