Every spring, visitors are serenaded by a chorus of frogs emanating from Stillman’s cattail marsh. And almost every person comments, “Listen to those spring peepers.” Guess what? Almost everyone who ...

In any neighborhood in spring where there’s a spit — or maybe a bit more — of water, you might hear an unusual sound as if someone were rubbing a thumb against the teeth of a comb. The sound ...

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 ...

Participants in a recent hike at Woodland Mound look for different types of amphibians making their annual migration to lay eggs in vernal pools. In the waning days of winter, as the temperatures ...

Spring is filled with so many cool and interesting natural things. The earth is awaking after a long and frozen sleep. Each year I am surprised when I hear my first frogs calling. It always seems too ...

If you’re out on a walk in early spring and you happen to hear clucking, don’t start looking around for barnyard birds. The wood frog is one of the first frog species to emerge in late winter in the ...

Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start to emerge from their hiding places. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...

April showers bring May flowers. April showers also make frogs explode into a chorus after spring rain. These frogs are not simply croaking for communication. The loudest frogs are signaling that they ...

Silent night? Not in many parts of Alabama that are home to chorus frogs. The Ornate Chorus frog has black splotches and a distinct call. Its prime breeding time is December. “It’s just a real sharp, ...

Following up on the World Around You feature from last Sunday about spring peeper tree frogs, a reader asked if I would find the small noisy spring frogs first to speak up around the Tulsa area — ...

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 ...