All male frogs sing to attract mates, Maggie said, noting that each species has a distinctive song — the duck-like quack of the northern wood frog, the watery snore of a pickerel frog, and the ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...

The frog season began late this spring. Like other vernal happenings, they were about one week behind the usual time. I did not hear any frogs calling until April 15, with the full chorus of the early ...

As we exit this awesome month of August, the world of nature continues to be filled with varied and interesting happenings. For the first time since mid-April, we have a setting sun before 8 p.m. The ...

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 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. QThere are some creatures in our neighborhood trees that at sundown make a loud chattering sound. I believe there are two of them in separate trees.

It was a chilly, sunny autumn morning when I discovered a frog in the grass below a maple tree in my yard. The cool weather had slowed its metabolism, and it hardly moved when I picked it up and held ...

While poking around the garden the other day I found an adorable visitor, a small frog called a gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) resting among the brightly colored flowers. This amazing little ...