Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the ...

which sounds like a pig’s “oink.” They mostly call to attract female frogs, and they will call with a chorus of 1 to 13 short, loud grunts, which can sometimes combine to sound like a roar.

You might think the sounds you noticed coming from those wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you ...

"The Western chorus frog sounds a lot like if you ran your fingernail across the teeth of a comb," Salehpour explains. The Western chorus frog is about the same size as the spring peeper and likes ...

The call is often compared to the sound made when you draw your thumb down the teeth of a stiff comb. The chorus frog is small compared to other, better-known frogs such as leopard frogs or bull ...

and join their voices in chorus, it’s a sign that spring has truly sprung. For me, that moment arrived late in the afternoon on March 10, when the quacking sound of wood frogs first met my ears.