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Like other widespread species such as the Common Yellowthroat and the Swainson's Thrush, Dark-eyed Junco populations vary by plumage, size, vocalizations, and behavior across their range, accounting for what one scientist calls a “turbulent” taxonomic history.
abcbirds.orgFrom the Winter 2020 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Every winter carries with it a flight of snowbirds—retirees fleeing New York snow or Chicago slush for southern sunshine. The cheery Dark-eyed Junco is also known as a snowbird, because it escapes cold mountains and boreal for
www.allaboutbirds.orgDark-eyed juncos ( Junco hyemalis ) breed from Alaska and central Yukon to Labrador and Newfoundland, south to central coastal California, in the mountains to eastern California, central Arizona, and western Texas, southern Alberta, northern and east-central Minnesota, central Michigan, southern New England, and in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia and northwestern South Carolina; also in the Black Hills. This species winters from central and south coastal Alaska, coastal British...
animaldiversity.orgDark-eyed Juncos are neat, even flashy little sparrows that flit about forest floors of the western mountains and Canada, then flood the rest of North America for winter. They’re easy to recognize by their crisp (though extremely variable) markings and the bright white tail feathers they habitually flash in flight. Dark-eyed Juncos are among the most abundant forest birds of North America. Look for them on woodland walks as well as in flocks at your feeders or on the ground beneath them.
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www.biokids.umich.eduRebecca Pugh tells of the darkeyed junco one of the most important winter birds to visit the North Shore
thelocalnews.newsIn winter over much of the continent, flocks of Dark-eyed Juncos can be found around woodland edges and suburban yards, feeding on the ground, making ticking calls as they fly up into the bushes...
www.audubon.org5-6 1/4" (13-16 cm). This species shows much geographic variation in color. Typically, male of western population ("Oregon Junco") has black hood, chestnut mantle, white underparts with buff sides. Eastern male ("Slate-colored Junco") is dark slate-gray on head, upper breast, flanks, and upperparts, with white lower breast and belly. Both forms have pink bill and dark gray tail with white outer tail feathers conspicuous in flight. The pine forests of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and...
www.borealbirds.orgThe six flavors of junco were long considered separate species. Recent science shows that they instead boldly exhibit evolution in real time.
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