Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...

All male frogs sing to attract mates, Maggie said, noting that each species has a distinctive song — the duck-like quack of the northern wood frog, the watery snore of a pickerel frog, and the ...

A Green frog (Rana clamitans) peers out from a pond in Arrowsic, Maine. There are nine species of frogs in the state and this common frog lives in Maine ponds, breeds in the summer, and hibernates ...

For several years, two close friends, now both deceased, would join me to go birding in early May along the coast. We would take Route 2. It was customary to stop at the French King Bridge, spanning ...

Not long after the snow melts a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the mid-Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans recovering from serious ...

This week I’m writing about things that go peep, croak and brr-wum in the night. If you’ve ever been near water at dusk or at night, you know what I’m talking about. We’re talking about frogs.

Not long after ice out — usually early to mid-April — a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the Northern Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans ...

It was a chilly, sunny autumn morning when I discovered a frog in the grass below a maple tree in my yard. The cool weather had slowed its metabolism, and it hardly moved when I picked it up and held ...