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 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 ...

Dark-eyed junco birds primarily eat seeds and insects. Along with the aforementioned sources of food, including corn, millet, and weeds seeds, their diet also consists of seeds from grasses.

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 ...

A male dark-eyed junco snacks on poison ivy berries. “…there is not an individual in the Union who does not know the little Snow-bird…” − John James Audubon (1831) ...

Outdoors Dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis Still haven’t taken the old Christmas tree out of the yard? Think about waiting a few more weeks, and maybe even moving it closer to your bird feeders.

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 ...

Pierre Deviche, Jennifer Parris, Testosterone Treatment to Free-Ranging Male Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) Exacerbates Hemoparasitic Infection (El Tratamiento de Testosterona en Machos Silvestres ...