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peeper
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peeper: see tree frog tree frog, name for any of the small tree- or shrub-inhabiting frogs of the family Hylidae, characterized by an adhesive disk on the tip of each of the clawlike toes.
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For me, spring peepers, the first amphibians we hear each spring, often occur together in large numbers and collectively sound like high pitched, soft sleigh bells.
Frog hunt plays to quite a melody by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Red-winged blackbirds will be arriving, in the Northeast, Spring peepers will be peeping there, and loons will be mating.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for Winter of 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal
When we moved here in 1997 I walked by in early spring and it was so full of spring peepers, those little inch-long tree frogs that make a single loud peep over and over in search of a mate, that you could hardly distinguish one from the next.
Jeepers, creepers, what happened to the peepers? Where are the frogs? by Lindorff, Dave / Synthesis/Regeneration
 
 
 
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