Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is seeking “citizen-scientist” volunteers and participate in its annual FrogWatch census in area wetlands.
FrogWatch is a collaboration between the zoo, The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, and Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. In this program, volunteers will make regular visits to wetlands in their neighborhoods a half-hour after sunset and keep a frog log to record the frog and toad calls they hear. Working with experts, volunteers will learn about local frog species, then visit wetlands once or twice a week for about 15 minutes each night this spring and summer.
This year, training will be presented online for the first session on Feb. 7, and the second session will be offered either in-person at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo or online on March 4. Volunteers do not need any prior experience or knowledge about frogs.
“FrogWatch USA is a fantastic educational program that demonstrates how everyone can play a part in protecting wildlife,” said Jim Knox, education curator at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo.
For more information and to register, visit BeardsleyZoo.org/frog-watch.
