We know the long winter is finally loosening its grip on Yellowstone when we hear the sound of spring: boreal chorus frogs calling from snowmelt pools in the marshy areas near Yellowstone Lake, often ...

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 ...

We humans have come up with some poetic collective nouns for animals. A murder of crows. A parliament of owls. Even a shrewdness of apes (now also the name of a band). So it seems we missed the ...

A chorus in the wetlands! At Boot Lake Nature Preserve in Elkhart, IN, Evie discovered the trills of the Western Chorus Frog. These tiny frogs may be hard to spot, but their calls are a sure sign that ...

Frogs usually operate under our radar, but in late winter and early spring they leap to our attention as they let loose with their voices. Usually called Pacific tree frogs (although they aren’t true ...

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, ...

Quick Take Wood frogs may travel up to a half mile to the vernal pool they were born in before participating in the spring ...

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 ...

You can hear the choruses of male wood frogs in vernal pools during the early spring. It’s not the birds or the bees in this story. It’s actually frogs. Wood frogs, it turns out, start their mating ...

Seventy frogs whose habitats range from South America to Africa to Illinois have taken up temporary residence at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. They're part of the traveling exhibit “Frogs: ...