#dark-eyed junco

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Happy Friday! Here's a Dark-eyed Junco in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3 uplands.

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[uwmspeccoll]

A Cheerful-Sparrow Feathursday

Among the most cheerful birds in our neighborhood are the common House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). I wake up every morning with the House Sparrows on my porch telling me to chirrup! And as I walk to work, the Juncos flitting about close to the ground, with their white tail bars and their tiny chipping calls, just starts the day off right.

Both are sparrows, but the House Sparrow, a year-long resident here, is an Old World sparrow (family Passeridae), introduced into North America in the 1850s.The Junco is an indigenous New World sparrow (family Passerellidae). They breed much further north in summer, and while they do winter in our region, in Milwaukee I tend to see them only in spring and fall as they move through. For me, they are harbingers of the changing seasons.

The images shown here are from a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. The volume includes 92 color plates by five wildlife artists illustrating 295 North American species. 

The two birds in the upper left of this plate are male breeding adult and fall immature male Juncos; in the upper right are male and female House Sparrows; at bottom on the ground are female breeding adult and juvenile Juncos.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

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[ravensvalley]

#Dark-eyed Junco

As the end of April approaches, this beautiful blizzard of Snowbirds is about to leave our area to the Grand North regions. It still amazes me that for such a small and fragile species most of them choose to go to their winter range origin, in cold temperature, to breed.

#Dark-eyed Junco #Junco Ardoisé #FeederWatch #bird photography #wildlife need protection #Bird Watching #Bird #Ornithology #Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere #Canada

[speakingofnature]

Dark-eyed Junco

Some seek the warmth of early-morning sunshine on a cold February dawn.

#Dark-eyed Junco #nature

[tinylongwing]

Quick B&W sketch of a juvenile Dark-eyed Junco. Done for The Institute for Bird Populations, as I go about updating some of our training materials for spring and summer bird banding classes.

Juvenile juncos don't look a whole lot like the adults, do they? They have the same sparrow body shape and bill, though, but the most important clue is that they have those same white outer tail feathers as the older birds.

#birdblr #dark-eyed junco #junco #sparrow #birds #birb #bird art #scientific illustration #ornithology #baby birds #artists on tumblr

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

foggy day photos ( ˙꒳​˙ )

^ creepers! I love these guys (so hard to take photos of (´Д｀))

^ dark-eyed junco

^ a dapper spotted towhee

^ a polite douglas squirrel

^ and a common goldeneye! my first time seeing one so close up ( ˙꒳​˙ )

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #brown creeper #dark-eyed junco #spotted towhee #douglas squirrel #common goldeneye

[peterborough-scapes]

Attention

A Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) in the snow at Trent University Nature Area, Peterborough

©2024 Ken Oliver

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[davantagedenuit]

The very first dark-eyed junco of the season! They came back on Monday, and here's one showing you its butt.

#dark-eyed junco #birds

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Autumn in the garden

By Mary Ann Whitney-Hall

#mary ann whitney-hall #photographer #autumn #bird #bird photography #nature #garden #dark-eyed junco

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Early signs of spring on North Douglas

#dark-eyed junco #western skunk cabbage #birds #spring #my photos #juneau #southeast alaska

[lake-lady]

tufted titmice (titmouses??) are so cute, i love them too! my favourite bird i see in my yard is the dark-eyed junco. i've been seeing them digging for bugs in the dead leaves, alongside robins and crows

Omg I just looked up dark-eyed junco and I love them, they're so round! I'll have to keep an eye out 👁️🐦‍⬛

#birds #tufted titmouse #dark-eyed junco #asks #asks answered #birding

[everydayesterday]

Anyway, here's a Dark-Eyed Junco ⬛👁️ cracking a safflower seed.

etymology: junco (n.) 1706 as a book-name (now obsolete) for the reed-sparrow, from Modern Latin junco "reed, bush," from Latin iuncus "reed, rush" (see jonquil). Later (by 1858) as the name of a North American snow-bird, from the use of the Modern Latin word as a genus name in the finch* family.

[*Ed. note: it is a sparrow, not a finch]

photo by me, 2024-03-08, my backyard, Nashville, TN.

#mine #birds #birdblr #birblr #bird photography #birding #birdwatching #backyard birds #dark-eyed junco #junco

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Dark-eyed Junco Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6

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[ostdrossel]

Bird activity is a little slow

due to the mild weather, so I am not getting many good photos. Things will pick up again in time but this is just as good of an opportunity to introduce the birds in my calendar for 2023. You can get the calendar here: tinyurl.com/5xd4tmzw. (I fixed the link, it should work now) The year begins with a Dark-eyed Junco. Many call them snowbird around here because they appear in fall and leave in spring, being something like a sign that winter is truly coming. They are entertaining little birds that I learned to appreciate even more with video footage because it enabled me to hear them up close too. For the calendar, I went with a photo that shows one in the sun because I loved the pose, the light and the clarity. The alternative was a snow storm photo. I loved that too but it felt better to start the year on a positive note. Have a great Sunday!

#birds #backyard birds #Dark-eyed Junco #Juncos #snowbirds #birds of Michigan #birds of north america #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature #bird calendar #Ostdrossel calendar #calendar 2023 #Ostdrossel #birdphotography #Sunday vibes

[speakingofnature]

Dark-eyed Junco

Our snowy winters hold a close association with the demure Junco...a lover of independence, solitude and stillness.

#Dark-eyed Junco #nature

[atamagaitai]

dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) by Jimmy Dee

#junco hyemalis #dark-eyed junco #animal #bird #human #upload