Whether it’s the deep “jug o’ rum” of the American bullfrog, the “peep, peep, peep” of the spring peeper or the “gick, gick, gick” of the northern cricket frog, give a listen and you'll hear nature’s ...
Twice a year, Linda Berker and her husband Donald James head out from their Lapeer County home in search of the croaking, chirping sounds of frogs. They drive to a few sites a mile apart from each ...
How was your summer? Mine was nothing short of adventure and surprise. Actually, one of the biggest surprises during an adventure wasn't big at all. It was one of the smallest frogs in North America — ...
This week I’m writing about things that go peep, croak and brr-wum in the night. If you’ve ever been near water at dusk or at night, you know what I’m talking about. We’re talking about frogs.
Tiny and in trouble: They’re small in stature—about an inch in length—and distressingly few in number. The northern cricket frog, which makes its home in the wetlands of the Lower Hudson Valley and ...
KINGSTON >> The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is considering a plan to increase the population of the endangered northern cricket frog, which has some habitats in Ulster and ...
After more than half a century, an endangered frog is back in western Wisconsin. The state Department of Natural Resources this summer recorded the distinct call of the Blanchard’s cricket frog in ...
Frogs are bio-indicators. So are monarch butterflies and bees. That’s one thing that students — including those from Wasmer Elementary in Grand Island — learned during Tuesday’s Children’s Groundwater ...
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 ...