You can hear the choruses of male wood frogs in vernal pools during the early spring. It’s not the birds or the bees in this story. It’s actually frogs. Wood frogs, it turns out, start their ...

The wood frog is one of the first frog species to emerge in late winter in the Northern U.S. and Canada, and from afar their distinctive calls can be mistaken for the sound of ducks or chickens.

Wood frog mating calls echo through parts of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The frogs breed on warm winter days and this January has been very mild.

A fancy camera offers new insight into the distinct calls of a springtime male wood frog chorus. By Sabrina Imbler In the winter, the woods of New Hampshire are littered with small, frozen frogs ...

This is the wood frog, the first of the New York amphibians to make an appearance each year. Wood frogs hibernate in the ... Their early spring staccato calls sound like a particularly loud snore and ...

A Southern Leopard Frog’s call can be heard from January through fall. Wood Frog – Lithobates sylvatica This species of frog, found as far north as Alaska, also calls East Tennessee home.

A Southern Leopard Frog’s call can be heard from January through fall. Wood Frog – Lithobates sylvatica This species of frog, found as far north as Alaska, also calls East Tennessee home.

The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that its heart stops beating – but it does not die. Once the spring ...

Wood frogs are dangerously (for them) active during breeding season. ... The toads, almost always juveniles or whatever it is you call a not-fully grown toad, can be found in our lawn.

The wood frog survives extreme winter temperatures by freezing solid, with its heart stopping for nearly eight months. It ...

Wood frogs added their baritone calls to the chorus. "They really are the harbingers of spring," said John Turner, the land management specialist for Brookhaven Town.