With a body the color of dead leaves and a black “mask” extending behind the eyes, the wood frog is unmistakable if you can actually find one. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON During a recent lecture ...

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 ...

Their breeding choruses are a well-known harbinger of spring in New England, and you can hear them at a wetland near you. We’re talking about spring peepers and wood frogs. They, along with some ...

The spring continues to unfold ahead of schedule. This was seen in March when sap flowed at the beginning, crocuses bloomed by the middle, and the large number and variety of waterfowl were here by ...

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” – Sitting Bull Now that days are longer and ...

Although it might sound like a kooky way to spend a warm evening, Enger performs a valuable service for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources by helping determine the state s frog and toad ...

The Northland frogs began their calling in about mid-April. Tiny chorus frogs started with long drawn-out creeks. This was quickly followed by duck-like "glucking" sounds from wood frogs. Before the ...

The sounds of spring can be heard before many of the signs of spring are seen. Most of these calls are male animals shouting out to the females of their species, “Hey, look at me, I have great genes!” ...

Not long after the snow melts a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the mid-Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans recovering from serious ...

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 ...

LONG LAKE, Minn. (AP) -- Half an hour past sunset in rural western Hennepin County, Madeleine Linck strains her ears. She's listening, believe it or not, for the sounds of courtship. In this June 2, ...