Ahhhh Spring! The thought of spring conjures up many sights, smells and sounds. After a long, hard winter, that red, red robin is a sight for frozen eyes to many and a sign of things to come for all.

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 ...

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 ...

Spring peepers are tiny brown frogs that are currently creating a loud chorus in south-central Indiana wetlands. Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve is a prime location to listen to the frog chorus ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It won't be long before the familiar sounds of spring return around Minnesota's lakes and rivers, including croaks from the state's 14 species of frogs and toads. The Minnesota ...

There’s been not a peep, nor quack or croak. But very soon, wood frogs, defrosted from their winter shutdowns, will head to vernal pools and start a quacking quarreling-duck racket. Then peepers will ...

Just as each bird has a unique call, so does each frog. The call of the tiny boreal chorus frog sounds like someone running a thumbnail over the teeth of a pocket comb. An American toad emits a long ...

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 ...

Like you, from time to time I get asked to name my favorite musical albums. Among my list of Led Zeppelin and Van Morrison and Charlie Parker selections is one by Ray Anderson, the late University of ...

Each spring, when the weather starts warming, Midlander Eldon Enger drives down dark country roads, getting out of his truck to check for frogs and toads nearby. Although it might sound like a kooky ...