Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center assistant director Alex Holmes shares how to listen for frogs in February that signal spring is on its way. Spring awakening in Missouri is a thing of wonder.

May 5—April is such an amazing month of change and we have seen it again this year. Early, we had temperatures of less than 10 degrees and a week later, we climbed to 70 degrees. In this warmth, ...

Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth, Mass. Inside the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Zak Mertz pointed to what he called a ...

As winter fades and spring arrives, Connecticut’s wetlands, ponds, and forests come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. These amphibians are an important and often overlooked part of the state’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Seven species of frogs and one toad make the Northland their home. Each lays its eggs in water. Some stay in the water, others go off to live on land for the rest of the year. All give calls and songs ...