With spring weather comes outdoor spring sounds. And one well-known sound in parts of the Poconos is the song of the spring peeper frog, also known as pseudacris crucifer. Pocono Environmental ...

Those may not be the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson but they ring true enough. For a diminutive animal, the size of a thumbnail, spring peepers make quite a bit of noise. A pond full of males peeping ...

The spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer, is a tiny chorus frog with a big voice. (Harvey Bird) Many people have heard spring peepers as they drive by wetlands in the early spring, but most people have ...

Claim to fame: The northern spring peeper is one of the Ozarks’ well-known signs of spring because it is this region’s earliest-calling frog of spring. Although some Ozarkers have never seen a spring ...

A camouflaged spring peeper clings to the stem of a plant as its vocal sac slightly protrudes from its neck. Listen for the calls of spring peepers this week as these harbingers of spring emerge and ...

If you live in the eastern U.S. or Canada, you know it's spring when you hear the calls of the spring peeper, a tiny chorus frog with a high-pitched call. They are among the first frogs to announce ...

Join Evie as she explores the fascinating world of Spring Peepers, those tiny frogs that f Join Evie as she explores the fascinating world of Spring Peepers, those tiny frogs that fill the air with ...

Spring peepers is Ohio's smallest native frog, but the chorus of high-pitched peeps the males make during mating season can be quite loud. The emergence of the spring peepers, which already can be ...

Step outside at night. A chorus of frogs can now be heard across much of the area -- their bird-like peeping a sure sign of spring. Found in wooded areas and grassy lowlands near ponds, these ...

Peeper seekers, Gianna George, Mt. Airy, takes a photo of her children, Alaina, 3 and Grady, 5 prior to the search. Nearly 30 people gathered with buckets, nets and flashlights at East West Park in Mt ...

We like to think that everything in nature has its own particular time and place. But nature is fond of throwing us curves. As a naturalist, a common question I’m asked during foliage season is, “why ...