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 ...

Warm rain and dark roads brought frogs, salamanders and spring peepers out during the annual migration known as Maine Big ...

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 ...

The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these ...

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 ...

WWe can learn the different type of frog calls that come from our backyard. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation gives us examples incluind one that goes, "quack, quack, quack".

Across the eastern United States, and stretching into Canada, residents know it’s spring when they hear the chirp of the spring peeper. Now, the tiny messenger of winter’s end is on track to become ...

Lesley Herschlag learned firsthand the highs and lows of spring amphibian rescues — one night saving dozens, another night ...

In western Maine, spring rains trigger mass migrations of frogs and salamanders, drawing residents like Mack Connor out to ...

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 ...