Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-eyed junco bird in snow - Melodyannem/Getty Images Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when ...

Juncos are one of those winter birds that are pretty much guaranteed to show up at every backyard bird feeder in New England. This is a bird I have been able to recognize since I was a child and first ...

If you’re walking in the woods, you’re probably going to get more annoyed by a loud, screeching bird call than a soft, complex birdsong. But dark-eyed juncos are just the opposite. These birds will ...

How to identify: The dark-eyed junco is a medium-sized sparrow with a rounded head, a short, stout bill and a fairly long, conspicuous tail. Juncos vary across the country, but in general they’re dark ...

Dark-eyed Juncos are showing up in my yard and the yards of others, virtually announcing that fall is long gone and winter is here. Famed 18th- and 19th-century naturalists, such as Mark Catesby (1682 ...

This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:17 p.m. Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the birds are anything but ordinary.

I suspect the great naturalist and pioneer ornithologist was optimistic in his estimation of junco familiarity. His “snow-bird” is now formally known as the dark-eyed junco, and back in Audubon’s time ...

Leucistic dark-eyed junco of the "Oregon" form, Junco hyemalis var. Oregonus, also sometimes known as snow birds or snow sparrows because they suddenly appear in the eastern, central and southern ...

During the colder winter months, the diversity of birds dwindles as many species leave Teller County. However, a few species that summer to the north move in for the winter. During this time you have ...

I was wondering when the first one would show up. Mid to late October is typically when the Dark-eyed Juncos start showing up throughout the southern half of New England, but I hadn’t seen one yet and ...

The ability to ramp up testosterone production appears to drive male dark-eyed juncos to find and win mates, but it comes with an evolutionary cost. Big fluctuations in testosterone may also cause ...