What’s calling near me
Hear the frogs and toads calling around you.
Type a ZIP code and get every frog and toad on record for your county or parish, sorted by what is most likely calling this month, each with a recording you can play on the spot. Recordings are Creative Commons-licensed iNaturalist observations, credited as they play; the calling months come from when people in your state actually record each species. Free, and in beta.
How this works and where the data comes from
Why this exists
Most frogs are heard long before they are seen.
A spring chorus can hold six or eight species at once, and a call database that lists every frog in North America is not much help at the pond edge. This page starts from the short list of what actually lives in your county, puts the species most likely to be calling this month at the top, and lets you compare the calls side by side. Play all turns your county into a training tape.
Calling seasons are a guide, not a promise: a warm rain in the wrong month brings out toads, and a dry spring keeps treefrogs quiet. If a species or a season looks wrong for your area, the Something wrong? link on each species goes straight to us. The full list of reptiles and amphibians for your county, with the evidence behind each one, is on What Lives Near Me.
Free, and staying that way
Help keep these tools running
This tool, the free snakes course, the Primer and everything on our Resources page will always be free. If it helped you and you would like to help keep it running (and help us build the next one), you can pitch in. Everything given goes to LEARN, the nonprofit rescue that runs The Herpetology Collective, so it also helps feed, house and care for the animals we take in.