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

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, 2020, on Oct. 18, with a heavy frost the snowbirds arrived in our yard. The year prior, 2019, they arrived on Oct. 15. This year the snowbirds, aka a dark-eyed junco (once known as the ...

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 ...