Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-eyed junco bird in snow - Melodyannem/Getty Images Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when ...

The ability to ramp up testosterone production appears to drive male dark-eyed juncos to find and win mates, but it comes with an evolutionary cost. Big fluctuations in testosterone may also cause ...

If you’re walking in the woods, you’re probably going to get more annoyed by a loud, screeching bird call than a soft, complex birdsong. But dark-eyed juncos are just the opposite. These birds will ...

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 ...

Leucistic dark-eyed junco of the "Oregon" form, Junco hyemalis var. Oregonus, also sometimes known as snow birds or snow sparrows because they suddenly appear in the eastern, central and southern ...

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 ...

Dark-eyed junco birds are one of many species that practices monogamy…to a point. While a male and female are pair-bonded – the junco equivalent of marriage – both partners will take on additional ...

How to identify: The dark-eyed junco is a medium-sized sparrow with a rounded head, a short, stout bill and a fairly long, conspicuous tail. Juncos vary across the country, but in general they’re dark ...

Dark-eyed Juncos are showing up in my yard and the yards of others, virtually announcing that fall is long gone and winter is here. Famed 18th- and 19th-century naturalists, such as Mark Catesby (1682 ...

A columnist received backlash from readers after calling dark-eyed juncos "drab" and "soot black." Readers shared their appreciation for juncos, citing them as harbingers of winter and praising their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dark-eyed junco was one of four birds in a poll for the best bird to represent Kitchener. (Kate Bueckert/CBC - image credit) The ...