Spring weather settling-in across Missouri triggers breeding activities for many frogs. This week on Discover Nature, we’ll learn about the Boreal Chorus Frog.
Listen in prairies, and along the grassy edges of marshes and farm ponds, for these small gray or tan frogs – three-quarters to one-and-a-half inches long – with three wide stripes down the back. They begin breeding in late February, with their raspy, vibrating call peaking in mid-April – a sound similar to running a fingernail over the teeth of a pocket comb.
