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 ...

It was the third week in January, with the temperature gauge registering minus 17 degrees at 6 a.m. The sun wasn’t even up yet, but dozens of small birds were hopping on the snow beneath a backyard ...

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 ...

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The birds have been observed bathing in powdery snow. One of the most interesting things about juncos is their regional color variation. There are five variants of junco in North America which were ...

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.

The feathers of adult male Dark-eyed Juncos (left) are dark gray with white on the belly. Adult females (right) show the same color pattern, but their gray feathers are lighter in color and they can ...

"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 ...

Every once in a while, someone asks what is the most common bird in our area. That depends on when you ask. Where you live. And what you mean by common. By any standard, however, the answer is easy in ...

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 ...