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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As temperatures climb and trees bud with the arrival of spring, a native frog species is awakening after months being frozen and nearly dead. Wood frogs are small, brownish-tan amphibians between 1.5 ...

Every spring, visitors are serenaded by a chorus of frogs emanating from Stillman’s cattail marsh. And almost every person comments, “Listen to those spring peepers.” Guess what? Almost everyone who ...

The week started with an audible sign that perhaps spring has actually arrived: The beloved pinkletinks, our local name for ...

On this St. Patrick’s Day, the pipes aren’t all that are calling. So are frogs in local wetlands. You’ll hear them when the day is warm enough, especially the chirping of the tiny spring peepers and ...

Many of us think of the first signs of spring as being visual the first bird of spring or the first wildflower of spring. While there is plenty of debate on what species of bird constitutes the first, ...

As spring gets into full gear, the sounds, and aroma of the season are too. Chorus frogs here on the Nebraska prairie may be heard calling on warm nights in early spring even before all the ice has ...

If it quacks like a duck, it’s a wood frog. If it sounds like sleigh bells jingling, it’s a spring peeper. If it sounds like ...

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 ...