I had just taken a sip of my morning coffee the other day when I looked out the window and saw a dark-eyed junco on the birdbath. It had been six years since I last saw the bird in my neighborhood.

Take the dark-eyed Junco, for example. It’s a ground-dwelling bird with a rounded head, a short, stout bill, and a long, flicking tail. It hops along the forest floor of Yosemite, and new research ...

There are times in life when you just have to thumb your nose at rules established by others. That was how my wife felt while sitting at a bird feeder in Portal, Arizona. She was going for a “big ...

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 ...

Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when dark-eyed junco birds can be spotted. These ...

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 ...

The dark-eyed junco is a common spring and fall migrant throughout Minnesota, and a common winter visitor in the southern part of the state. During the summer, some nest in northern St. Louis and Lake ...

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 ...

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 ...