Urban wildlife sanctuaries, including an overgrown Capp Street backyard, are helping bring a tiny frog’s once-familiar bellow back to San Francisco. “At one time, the chorus frog was the sound of the ...

The booming chorus of thousands of high-pitched “kreek-eecks” from a gathering of small but tenacious Pacific tree frogs has filled the night in many Central Coast locations with the recent warm rains ...

Fun fact we just learned: The only frog in the world to actually go “ribbit” is right here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s called the Pacific chorus frog, and Washington made it the official state ...

Pam Twitchell of Adair Village took this photo in June 2008 on her front porch. “My home is located across from a wetland and the little guys/gals find refuge in my flower pots. The flower ‘Prince’ is ...

This is a Pacific chorus frog in Sixty Lakes Basin in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Known for its distinctive "ribbit" call, this noisy frog is a potent carrier of a deadly amphibian disease, ...

Known for its distinctive "ribbit" call, this noisy frog is a potent carrier of a deadly amphibian disease, according to new research published March 12, 2012, in the journal PLoS One. The research ...