Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start to emerge from their hiding places. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...
A Northern Spring Peeper crawling over a bed of moss. iSTOCK/COX A Northern Spring Peeper crawling over a bed of moss. iSTOCK/COX I’ve heard, or more accurately, read, that you can hear a lion’s roar ...
A spring peeper at Corey Marsh last fall. Spring nights come alive at a Laingsburg nature center as temperatures warm. That means frogs are waking up, and their chirps and croaks are reverberating ...
Choruses of spring peepers rise from the woods in April. But how do those inch-long amphibians deal with the vagaries of New England weather that can swing temperatures from the 70s to the 20s? To ...
All over Schuylkill County, middle and high school students in Envirothon are feverishly learning how to identify the appearance and calls of Pennsylvania amphibians. Amphibian ID is a hallmark ...
“Balance,” “poise,” and “equilibrium” are all words that can broadly describe nature and seem especially fitting as we mark the passing of the spring equinox. Light will outshine the darkness from now ...
The northern leopard frog is often discussed as the earliest frog sound you’ll hear when the temperatures begin to rise. The more frog calls you hear, the better the ecosystem. Many frog calls begin ...