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Fun Frog Facts to Know and Learn

Want to find out more about frogs? Now is your chance, before spring comes, so you can be ready to help with the FrogWatch citizen scientist project.

There are four training sessions coming up:

• Tuesday, Feb. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the first floor conference room, Connecticut Forest & Park Association, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall, first floor meeting room (snow date: Thursday, Feb. 22)

• Thursday, March 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hanson Center, Beardsley Zoo, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport (snow date is Tuesday, March 6)

• Saturday, March 10, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the third floor classroom, Maritime Aquarium, 10 N. Water Street, Norwalk (snow date is Tuesday, March 13 from 7 to 9 p.m.)

• Tuesday, March 30, from 7 to 9 p.m., room 110, Environmental Science Center next to the Yale Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave, New Haven (snow date is Thursday, March 22)

Registration is requested:

http://peabody.yale.edu/events/become-peabody-beardsley-frogwatch-citizen-scientist

Those attending the training session will be given lessons on what frogs sound like.

Here are some example:

• Northern spring peeper: peep

• Gray treefrog: trill, like a red bellied woodpecker

• Bullfrog: like a race car driving by

• Green frog: broken banjo string

• Northern leopard frog: balloons rubbing together

• Atlantic coast leopard frog: duck-like quacks, one syllable

• Pickerel frog: snore

• Wood frog: duck-like quacks, two short syllables

• American toad: long trill, 20-30 seconds

• Fowler’s toad: weeeeeeee; “chain-smoking baby”

• Eastern spadefoot toad: waaaah (descending pitch)

Want to find out more? Visit the Online Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Connecticut at bit.ly/2mFehCV and check out the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection – Bureau of Natural Resources’ Connecticut Wildlife magazine, published six times a year for $8 a year, at bit.ly/2mtKTml.

The FrogWatch website is frogwatch.org and the Facebook Group you looked at is www.facebook.com/groups/PeabodyBeardsleyMaritimeFROGWATCH.

—Pem McNerney