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 ...

Since my last column on signs of spring (Feb. 7, 2024), more signs have become evident. The most common feeder bird in Idaho year after year — the dark-eyed junco — has begun to sing. Their simple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when dark-eyed junco birds can be spotted. These ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — These snowbirds stay North in winter and are among the visible indicators of the cold weather to come locally. They’re slate-colored birds called Dark-eyed Juncos. “Yes, the Dark ...

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 much of the ...