There are times in life when you just have to thumb your nose at rules established by others. That was how my wife felt while sitting at a bird feeder in Portal, Arizona. She was going for a “big ...

A familiar winter visitor, the dark-eyed junco uses remarkable senses and navigation skills that make this modest backyard ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch for juncos feeding on the ground under your feeders this winter. This lively bird is a ground dweller and feeds on seeds and small fruits in the open. It also moves through the lower branches of ...

We don’t need snow flurries to tell us winter has come to the Inland Northwest. We have the arrival of dark-eyed juncos. The sparrow variety, which doesn’t look like a typical streaked sparrow, is a ...

It is known as “The Snowbird” in Ohio, because it arrives in Ohio in the colder months, often close to the first snowfall. This bird, the Dark-Eyed Junco, has a gray head and back, a pink bill and is ...

The Outside Story Most winters, the dark-eyed junco is one of the most common birds at my feeder. While I rarely see juncos in summer, except when hiking in the mountains, small flocks of juncos ...

I wrote my first bird column on Sunday, Nov. 5, 1995, which means this weekly column will mark its 24th anniversary this week. This column has appeared over the last 20 years in a total of six ...