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 ...

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 ...

Dark-eyed juncos have been the most faithful species at Dave Lambeth's feeders on the south side of Grand Forks. Just north of town, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has been showing up at feeders. At my ...

"Birds of New England" written in 1870 by Edward A. Samuels, a volume I have owned many years, offers an interesting introduction to "The Snowbird," the species that we today know by many other names ...

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 ...

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.