Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start ...

At a Laingsburg nature center, spring nights come alive with frog croaks, bird calls and cricket chirps. A group of hikers ...

Spring peepers are tiny brown frogs that are currently creating a loud chorus in south-central Indiana wetlands. Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve is a prime location to listen to the frog chorus ...

Eager children clad in rain boots and warm jackets carried nets, buckets and flashlights on their quest to find frogs earlier this week in Mount Airy’s Windy Ridge Park. Their parents accompanied them ...

You might think the sounds you hear coming from wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you might think the evening chorus of chirping along the creek is produced by a flock of ...

Beneath the strawberry moon in late June, we listened to green frogs belting out their banjo-like twang from a pond at Wright Woods near Vernon Hills. It was 10 p.m., and though the forest preserves ...

Spotlighted in the beam of a flashlight on the asphalt road, the tiny frog looks impossibly vulnerable. Then small hands gently scoop up the spring peeper, carrying it across the road to the safety of ...

All over the world, amphibians are in decline. The reasons are legion: Wetland homes are drained; pesticides and herbicides interfere with their life cycles; invasive species introduced as pets bring ...

Warm rain in the Hudson Valley signals the start of amphibian migration season. Frogs and salamanders leave forest shelters ...