The dark-eyed junco is a medium-sized sparrow with dark gray plumage on its head, chest and upper parts that contrasts with the white belly and their white outer tail feathers. Its eyes are dark ...

When you use these tips to draw dark-eyed juncos to your yard, you'll need to know what identifiers to look out for. There are quite a few different varieties of the bird, however, most are dark ...

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 ...

Yes, it’s still autumn, but one of the earliest signs of winter might already be in your own backyard. The Dark-eyed Junco is a small sparrow that’s synonymous with winter’s return across ...

I wrote my first bird column on Sunday, Nov. 5, 1995, which means this weekly column will mark its 24th anniversary this week. This column has appeared over the last ...

One of the 'snowbirds” of Iowa, ubiquitous from rural areas to cities, is the junco. There are two junco species in the United States. These are the aptly named dark-eyed and yellow-eyed. The ...

One of my favorite local illustrators, Diana Sudyka, picks the dark-eyed junco as her Bird of 2012.The use of birds in the decorative arts took a hit with the (admittedly well-targeted) Portlandia ...

Come mid-March, dark-eyed juncos start their northward journey. By May, nearly all of them have moved north, leaving us with to deal with a five-month junco hiatus.

THE APPEARANCE of dark-eyed juncos is often thought of as a harbinger of winter’s onset. They appear here in northern New England late in the fall. Their slate upper coloring ...

The Dark-Eyed Junco flutter into bushes for cover. Here is a peek onto the Silver Lake Golf Course through greenery loved by melodic birds. (Staten Island Advance/Pamela Silvestri) - ...