In East Tennessee, people are surrounded by trees and that means they live in the middle of gray treefrog land. Join local naturalist, Stephen Lyn Bales, as participants learn about a clutch of ...

Host: Let's all welcome Clarice to The Mating Game. Clarice is a striking eastern gray treefrog from South Carolina, and she's here today, like all of our Mating Game contestants, in search of a ...

On nights of early summer, treefrogs can often be heard calling from South Jersey wetlands. As a group, these “sticky-fingered frogs” are easily recognized. Their toes end in mucous-covered discs that ...

Growing up just a few miles from where I'm sitting, I had a pretty simple take on amphibians. Smooth-skinned frogs were in or near a lake. Rough-skinned toads were found in the garden or lawn. Last ...

Clearcutting detrimentally affects the populations of many amphibian species. However, Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor) have shown a preference for breeding sites located in clearcuts near forested ...

It turns out there isn’t just one iconic sound of summer but a whole slew that, when you hear them, root you firmly in the season. I recently discussed bullfrogs in this context, but there’s also the ...

There’s something magical about hearing the short trill of a Cope’s gray treefrog from high up in the trees or spotting a barred tiger salamander tucked inside a prairie dog burrow. It’s a sure sign ...

The phenotypes of gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) tadpoles vary depending on whether predators are present in the pond. Tadpoles reared in ponds with predatory dragonfly larvae are relatively ...

Several Naturewatch readers have contacted me about the loud, prolonged trilling coming from suspected nearby trees without finding the cause. The long “explosive” trills are mating calls of the 2 1/2 ...

Documenting an occurrence of a new wildlife species for a region is usually good news. Unfortunately, with the number of non-native species that seemingly pop up, this is not always the case.