Wildly Successful: The Wood Frog

Written By: Jim Knox
Curator of Education at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo

As winter’s icy silence reluctantly yields to spring’s chorus in southern New England, we recognize the choir by voice, if not by sight. Before the Red-winged Blackbirds fill the marsh with song, before even the famous Spring Peepers fill the air with their bell-like symphony, there is another call. Neither melodic nor recognizable to most, the duck-like quack we hear before the final ice has left the swamp, is that of Rana sylvatica, also known as the Wood Frog.

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