Summer birdwatching can be slow and challenging. The spring migrants have moved through, the fall migrants haven’t returned yet and the winter birds are a few months out from arriving. But what makes ...

In mid-June, your reporter briefly thrust his phone over this nest in a front-porch flower basket, just to see who was at home. Vancouver Audubon member Susan Saul identified this baby as a dark-eyed ...

When I saw this Heather Wolf photo taken in Brooklyn Bridge Park of a “Dark-eyed Junco”, I was perhaps like a lot of amateur bird people: struck by the name of this species of sparrow, the Dark Eyed ...

A “new” arrival — an old friend actually — showed up at my feeding station Thursday morning. It was a northern junco — formerly called slate-colored junco and known equally well as the “snowbird.” At ...

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 Lake ...

Effects of snow depth and rate of snowmelt on reproduction of a montane ground-nesting passerine were examined in a 5-year study of Dark-eyed Juncos Junco hyemalis in northern Utah, USA. Distribution ...