).” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Outside Story Most winters, the dark-eyed junco is one of the most common birds at my feeder. While I rarely see juncos in summer, except when hiking in the mountains, small flocks of juncos ...

GRAND FORKS – The steady procession of birds continued into this week, and the list of species was a long one. Two stood out: The dark-eyed junco because it is uncountably abundant, and the brown ...

Introduction / Ellen D. Ketterson and Jonathan W. Atwell -- The junco : a common bird and a classic subject for descriptive and experimental studies in evolutionary and integrative biology / Ellen D.