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 ...

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 ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...

GILBY, N.D. – The dark-eyed junco is one of the most common birds in North America and one of the easiest to identify. The species is most often associated with fall’s southward migration, when quite ...

Submitted photo Officially called dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis), these common local birds are often known as “snowbirds” because many migrate south each fall from Alaska, Canada and northern ...

If you spend much time outdoors in freezing temperatures, you probably wonder where birds go when the temperature drops and the winds pick up. Just a week ago, I was walking a trail through the ...

GRAND FORKS – The dark-eyed junco is another of the signature birds of October. They may be more abundant than last week’s bird, the Canada goose – and perhaps as abundant as the snow goose, which ...

Bird-feeding means a lot more than just feeding birds. Providing food invites birds to share your living space. Paying attention to them makes that sharing much more than just a chore to keep the ...

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 ...

It’s the time to catch up with those species that breed in the high spruce-fir regions of the Southern Appalachians — where they reach the southernmost limit of their breeding ranges — but come down ...