But if you receive juncos at your feeders, the likelihood is that they hail from remote northern forests. Over its vast North American range, the dark-eyed junco varies markedly in appearance.

The dark-eyed junco is actually part of the new world sparrow group and between the 15 subspecies is one of the most widespread birds in North America. Populations thrive from the Arctic to ...

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 ...

Of the 15 dark-eyed Junco subspecies in North America, two reside in Washington state, according to BirdWeb, an online resource of Washington’s birds run by the Seattle Audubon Society.

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 ...

But what is it? This is a dark-eyed junco – otherwise known as the literal "snowbird" – comes and goes with the colder months of the year and is highly adaptive to numerous habitats.