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FrogWatch USA

FrogWatch USA™ is a long-term community science monitoring program of frogs and toads. As a volunteer-based monitoring program, FrogWatch gives people across the country an opportunity to be directly involved in gathering information that can ultimately lead to practical and workable ways to stop amphibian decline.

Join the FrogWatch Gateway Chapter

You do not have to be a frog or toad expert to help with frog conservation. All you need is an interest in frogs and toads and a willingness to participate at the level of commitment that works for you.

Our FrogWatch community offers several great ways to get involved in our FrogWatch program with different levels of training and time commitment. You have the option to help collect data about our frog and toad populations as a user of iNaturalist (FrogWatch-Lite) or as a FrogWatch volunteer.

Virtual FrogWatch-Lite Webinar

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
7 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

You do not need to be a frog expert to get involved with local conservation.  All you need is an interest in frogs and toads and a willingness to participate in a 90-minute training session with a commitment to collect photo(s) and record frog call(s) and share them through a community science app called iNaturalist.  Observations can be made anytime throughout the breeding season (February through August) or whenever you happen to see or hear a frog calling. There is no minimal or maximum number of observations required. Trainings for FrogWatch-Lite will include an introduction to the most common frogs and toads of the St. Louis Area, basic auditory identification, how to use iNaturalist and different ways you can get involved in the St. Louis area FrogWatch community.

This virtual training is for Ages 9th grade through adult.

Register here:

In-Person FrogWatch Volunteer Training

This in-person volunteer training will cover all the information needed to get started and to join our FrogWatch volunteer community. This training will include auditory identification of the common frogs and toads of the St. Louis area, as well as FrogWatch data collection and site registration protocols.

All In-person Trainings are for Ages 9th grade - Adult
 

Tuesday, April 7, 2026
7 - 9 p.m. 
Located at The Living World (North Entrance) of the Saint Louis Zoo
Click here to register

Know Your Neighbors: Identifying St. Louis Frogs & Toads by Their Songs

For additional information and practice please click here!

More on FrogWatch

FrogWatch Gateway Chapter Sites
 

Join our chapter and add your own site.

 

Spring Peeper Program

The Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Spring Peeper Program is working to identify remaining populations of urban frogs and toads in the watersheds located within the Interstate 270 beltway. Causes for the decline of spring peepers, boreal chorus frogs and cricket frogs in these areas are currently being studied with the hope of reestablishing viable and sustainable breeding populations in the future. Data from FrogWatch St. Louis volunteers may contribute to this conservation program.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact:

Michael Dawson, Conservation Education Liaison
dawson@stlzoo.org
(314) 646-4551