).” They are frequent victims of collisions with windows, and habitat loss has taken a toll as well. I am glad my wife made an executive decision to count each of the different subspecies of dark-eyed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-eyed juncos appear, almost ghost-like, about 20 minutes before sunrise. They slip onto the patio without my seeing their ...

The recent snowstorm and frigid temperatures have brought in large numbers of dark-eyed juncos to my ground feeding area. It’s easy to understand why they are called “snowbirds”. They arrive each ...

I suspect the great naturalist and pioneer ornithologist was optimistic in his estimation of junco familiarity. His “snow-bird” is now formally known as the dark-eyed junco, and back in Audubon’s time ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — These snowbirds stay North in winter and are among the visible indicators of the cold weather to come locally. They’re slate-colored birds called Dark-eyed Juncos. “Yes, the Dark ...

Whether it is when I’m writing in my columns or in my different journals, I often refer to a particular group of birds as “the regulars.” These are the species that are dependable visitors to my ...

Last year, 2020, on Oct. 18, with a heavy frost the snowbirds arrived in our yard. The year prior, 2019, they arrived on Oct. 15. This year the snowbirds, aka a dark-eyed junco (once known as the ...

We don’t need snow flurries to tell us winter has come to the Inland Northwest. We have the arrival of dark-eyed juncos. The sparrow variety, which doesn’t look like a typical streaked sparrow, is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-eyed junco bird in snow - Melodyannem/Getty Images Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when ...

When I saw this Heather Wolf photo taken in Brooklyn Bridge Park of a “Dark-eyed Junco”, I was perhaps like a lot of amateur bird people: struck by the name of this species of sparrow, the Dark Eyed ...

The feathers of adult male Dark-eyed Juncos (left) are dark gray with white on the belly. Adult females (right) show the same color pattern, but their gray feathers are lighter in color and they can ...

Dark-eyed juncos appear, almost ghost-like, about 20 minutes before sunrise. They slip onto the patio without my seeing their approach. Suddenly they're just there, poking about among the wind-piled ...