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 ...

The sounds of spring can be heard before many of the signs of spring are seen. Most of these calls are male animals shouting out to the females of their species, “Hey, look at me, I have great genes!” ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Sunday night, I was stunned by a chorus of frogs from a wet patch of brush a long stone's throw from the wiggling walking trail that is flanked by business US-10. Spring frogs create one of 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 ...

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 ...

During a recent lecture on evolution, I had to explain the differences between three different processes known as geographic, temporal and behavioral isolation. Geographic isolation is the easiest of ...

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 ...

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 ...