This thumbnail-sized frog is the “spring peeper,” and hearing it fills me with joy. Every ditch and pool comes alive with peeper calls in February, as long as the weather is warm enough.

Bird song is a well-known harbinger of spring, but in Missouri, a small frog known as the spring peeper begins spreading a message of seasonal change before many birds start their spring calls. People ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Bird song is a well-known harbinger of spring, but in Missouri, a small frog known as the spring peeper begins spreading a message of seasonal change before many birds start their ...

Before the frogs and toads come out, there will be virtual and in-person training to become familiar with the research project and with the calls to recognize.

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On Monday, the Maine Audubon Society spoke in favor of two bills to make the spring peeper as the official state amphibian and the wood turtle as the official state reptile. Maine Audubon says ...

The bills will advocate or the spring peeper to become Maine's state amphibian and the wood turtle to become Maine's state ...

It's a newer celebration dubbed "Half-O-Ween," though those who observe the halfway-to-Halloween holiday would surely and rightly claim that they've enjoyed the eerie occasion's spring-meets-autumn ...

These frogs are the wood frog, pictured above; the spring peeper; the gray tree frog; and the similar Copes gray tree frog.

It’s time to get serious about Spring. Spring Peepers are in the process of announcing that it is almost here. Flower bulbs hidden throughout the yard are poking up their first foliage.