According to Wikipedia, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and Canada. It prefers permanent ponds due to its advantage in ...

People volunteering for the Department of Natural Resources Frog and Toad call survey go out after dark, stand still and just listen. Volunteers say the job is easy, but officials say the data that’s ...

Screaming or yelling is a natural reaction to a threat. One animal you’d likely never expect to hear this from, though, is a ...

The Redbank Valley Historical Society plans to recognize the men and women who are residents, or former residents, of the Redbank Valley area who served in the ...

This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

April is the cruellest month,” said Nobel Laureate poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in his 1922 masterpiece, The Waste Land. Many of ...

the frog they cared for all winter at least had a place to call home. “So, we’ll put him right into some leaf litter that is just about the exact color he is,” he said, gently opening the jar and ...

Saturday, April 5, meet at 10 a.m. at Lowe-Volk Park, 2401 State Route 598. The Crawford Park District invites you to join other artifact collectors to walk nearby farm fields looking for remnants of ...

An expert explains how to find that sweet spot in between. 1️⃣ Close calls: It’s one of the country’s busiest airports — and the site of numerous near accidents between helicopters and ...

Now, species like the wood frogs, spring peepers, and grey tree frogs can thrive rather than survive, he said. Their mating calls now fill the airwaves day and night, the local officials said.