As temperatures climbed into the 70s last week, a familiar chorus filled the air in Central Maryland. The high-pitched call of the northern spring peeper — a tiny, brown tree frog, abundant in ponds ...

A camouflaged spring peeper clings to the stem of a plant as its inflated vocal sac protrudes from below its jaw. Listen for the calls of spring peepers this week, as these harbingers of spring emerge ...

Bird sounds are among the best-known harbingers of spring in the wildlife world. However, in early spring, a small frog begins spreading the message of seasonal change at a time many birds are still ...

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 ...

A spring peeper is pictured at the Audubon Community Nature Center Photo by Jeff Tome Audubon just wrapped up our last weekend of Audubon Lights, where colorful lights and scenes illuminated one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spring peepers are making themselves heard now statewide, and it is worth heading out in the evening to one of your favorite swamps for the symphony.This tiny frog with a cross on its back, ...

We are in the throes of fickle spring weather with warm, sunny days followed by nights shaking with the howl of icy winds from the north. Ponds are iced-over every morning only to melt by midday. This ...

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 ...