Each spring, when the weather starts warming, Midlander Eldon Enger drives down dark country roads, getting out of his truck to check for frogs and toads nearby. Although it might sound like a kooky ...

For several years, two close friends, now both deceased, would join me to go birding in early May along the coast. We would take Route 2. It was customary to stop at the French King Bridge, spanning ...

The eastern grey tree frog (sound) looks exactly like the closely related Cope’s grey tree frog (sound). The big difference between the two species is beneath the surface—the eastern has twice the ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. QThere are some creatures in our neighborhood trees that at sundown make a loud chattering sound. I believe there are two of them in separate trees.

A Green frog (Rana clamitans) peers out from a pond in Arrowsic, Maine. There are nine species of frogs in the state and this common frog lives in Maine ponds, breeds in the summer, and hibernates ...

The frog season began late this spring. Like other vernal happenings, they were about one week behind the usual time. I did not hear any frogs calling until April 15, with the full chorus of the early ...

Two related frog species differ by chromosome number, which deepened one species's calls and tells the females who's who. Steve Mirsky reports The eastern grey tree frog (sound) looks exactly like the ...