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On a recent walk around Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge I took the following picture. Why is it interesting? Give up? What if I give you a clue? Do you see it now? And do you know what it is? Here, let me zoom in for you… It’s a Gray Tree Frog, Hyla versicolor, a common [...]

Seth Ausubel is one of the best birders in Queens and when he is not out birding he is often in pursuit of herpetological delights or cool insects. He has contributed a great guest post to 10,000 Birds before and regularly tolerates Corey on birding outings. Here he describes an outing in search of a [...]

The New York Times has the story of this most improbable of discoveries.

Puerto Rico is home to a huge range of important and threatened animals and plants, and we’re very grateful to Alberto López-Torres  for this excellent post on the (mostly) endemic Eleutherodactylus genus of frogs – known to every Puerto Rican as ‘coqui’.   ‘Falling Silent? The Eleutherodactylus frogs of Puerto Rico’ Alberto López-Torres Although this [...]

Recent visits to Jamaica Bay, in addition to providing a wealth of bird sightings, have allowed me to see some Gray Tree Frogs (Hyla versicolor) up close and personal.  They are particularly likely to be found hiding in cracks and crevices in the bird blind at Big John’s Pond, a fact I read quite some [...]

It’s not easy being green…or so sang Kermit the Frog. It is easy though, to identify the frogs that you encounter while you’re out looking for birds that you can’t find. And while this blog is a birding blog, blogging about just birds in July is impossible because the birds are busy avoiding the blazing [...]