Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth, Mass. Inside the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Zak Mertz pointed to what he called a ...
The silence of winter is being supplanted by the exuberant springtime sounds of birds. Soon the full, noisy symphony called the dawn chorus will begin: Birds will wake up singing with the sunrise and ...