Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the ...

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.

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.

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

State Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono presented a bill to name the spring peeper as Maine’s official amphibian. Someone told her they had been scouring other states’ lists of official things ...

Because skunks do most of their hunting at night, they are more likely to be smelled than seen. While we don’t like the ...

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

spring peeper and wood turtle our official state dog, amphibian and reptile, respectively. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we go adding multiple cold-blooded creatures to our increasingly chaotic catalog ...