Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start ...

With the arising warmth on the mainland, season-harbingering spring peepers are already sounding off. Their piercing mating calls resonating even during near-freezing nights. Peepers are among the ...

For some, robins are the first sign of spring. But the changing of the seasons may be more accurately forecast by songs from a wet forest floor. On a warm night, wander near any fresh water and you’ll ...

You might think the sounds you hear coming from wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you might think the evening chorus of chirping along the creek is produced by a flock of ...

Beneath the strawberry moon in late June, we listened to green frogs belting out their banjo-like twang from a pond at Wright Woods near Vernon Hills. It was 10 p.m., and though the forest preserves ...