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 ...

Rainfall amounts so far this season have dropped to about 27 percent of average for mid-February in the Santa Ynez Valley. Not only has it been mostly dry since our last significant rain Jan. 9, but ...

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 ...

Cal Poly Humboldt wildlife student Lindsey Mountz will present a free lecture at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 titled “The Relationship between Pacific Tree Frogs and Non-native Blackberries.” This one-hour talk is ...

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 ...