Dark-eyed Juncos generally feed in flocks on seeds of weeds and grasses in the winter, often pecking and scratching the leaf litter to forage and flying into a nearby shrub when startled.

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.

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 ...

This little bird is a dark-eyed junco. It is a member of a genus of small American sparrows that are commonly referred to as "snow birds." The plumage of a dark-eyed junco's head, neck and breast ...

The North American population of Dark-eyed juncos is estimated at approximately 280 million, second only to the American Robin in overall population size in North America.

There are plenty of dark-eyed juncos to see. The population, which breeds strictly in the U.S. and Canada, numbers about 630 million individuals, or about two juncos for every person.

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 ...

The dark-eyed junco is a species in the New World sparrow family. There are many plumage variations, but in our area the most common Dark-eyed Junco has a dark, blackish hood if it is male and a ...