Quick Take Wood frogs may travel up to a half mile to the vernal pool they were born in before participating in the spring chorus. The Sackett v. EPA ruling stripped vital protections, leaving vernal ...
You might think the sounds you hear coming from wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you might think the evening chorus of chirping along the creek is produced by a flock of ...
Male green treefrogs attract mates with loud calls, but new research shows parasites can subtly change those signals.
Jul. 18—The morning is calm and clear. Probably the coolest time of day, the temperature is in the upper 50s. I walk to the lake to look at this summer scene. A phoebe nesting here is active. Red-eyed ...
A Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) male calls at Washington state's Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Cyril Ruoso, Nature Picture Library When ice and snow begin to melt in California's high ...
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 someone shaking ball bearings in a tin can, that’s a rare Blanchard’s ...