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 ...

Although it might sound like a kooky way to spend a warm evening, Enger performs a valuable service for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources by helping determine the state s frog and toad ...

We heard frogs a lot in spring. A trio began calling as soon as the ice went out. Two tiny ones - chorus frogs and spring peepers - woke from a hibernation to quickly find open water and begin their ...

Temperatures that have been swinging up and down over the short spring season have helped extend the spring chorus of frogs and toads across our area for weeks longer than usual. Many types of frogs ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Errrrrrrrrt, errrrrrrrt" reverberated loudly from a small red maple tree along Brodhead Creek, just south of East Stroudsburg. This sound seems quite similar to the song of the very common ...

What kind of bird is making that loud noise up in that tree?" asked a young lady as she was about to cast her fishing line into the lake. "I hear that same sound in my backyard," replied another ...

” … I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day ...