Dark-eyed Junco
| Junco hyemalis | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows) |
Junco hyemalis
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows)
This sparrow, nicknamed the “snow bird,” has distinctive white outer tail feathers that are conspicuous when the bird flies away. A ground feeder, it’s drawn to feeding stations in large numbers during migration and winter, especially when white millet or sunflower is scattered on the ground.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- February Update 2024
- Odd-tober! 2023
- Record-breaking Snow and Climate Change 2023
- Avian Influenza Update 2023
- April Is the Cruelest Month 2023
- Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places 2023
- Slow Birding 2023
- Dawn Comes to Peabody Street 2023
- 2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count, Part 2 2022
- Recognizing Sparrows, Part 1: Juncos and Sparrows with Streaked Breasts 2022
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza 2022
- Transition from Winter to Spring 2022
- February! 2022
- New Years Brrrrrrding! 2022
- Spring Update 2021
- April Update 2021
- Hanging Together 2020
- Centennial Celebration for a Spruce 2020
- October Snow! 2020
- Awe Walks, Part 2 2020
- Bonus Thursday: Backyard Update 2020
- Spring Is Springing! 2020
- Camera Fun 2020
- Junco Migration Kicks In! 2020
- The Birds and the Bees 2020
- Spring Update 2019
- Rats! 2018
- Helen Erickson, 1919-2018 2018
- Transitions 2018
- Yellow-rumped Warblers 2018
- Spring Update 2018
- Save Birds at YOUR Windows! Interview with Jeff Acopian 2018
- A November Awakening 2017
- Warbler Walk Update 2017
- First Warbler Walk of the year 2017
- Spring Update 2016
- Emily Dickinson's Birthday 2014
- Nature: Cataloging the particular 2014
- A Jolly Good Day, Part II 2013
- Black Phoebe 2012
- Brown Creeper 2012
- Big Migration Day 2012
- 2012: Early Spring 2012
- Junco Taxonomy 2011
- New Research on White-throated Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos 2011
- Factoids 2011
- New Year's Day predictions based on your first bird of the year, Part II 2011
- New Year's Day predictions based on your first bird of the year 2011
- Winter Bird Movements 2010
- Birds Observing 10-10-10 2010
- Beautiful Fall 2010
- Black-headed Grosbeak! 2010
- Squirrels 2008
- Feeding Birds on a Budget 2008
- Keeping Track of Birds with a Bird Cam 2008
- Seed-eating Birds 2007
- Juncos 2007
- Laura's Trip West 2007
- Migration Update 2007 2007
- Looking for Owls with Sharon 2007
- Easter Weekend in Port Wing 2006
- Birding with Photon 2005
- Poem by Barb Schmeling 2005
- DDT still out there 2005
- Great Backyard Bird Count, 2005 2005
- This Winter 2005
- Aurora 2004
- A Walk in Port Wing 2004
- April is the cruelest month 2004
- December Gloom 2003
- Winter's start 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- November 2003
- Common Grackle 2003
- Ice Storm 2003
- Winter Plumage 2003
- Ice Storm 2002
- Window Strikes, Part I 2002
- Why Birds? 2001
- Winter bird activity 2001
- Feather Numbers 2000
- Autumn Report 2000
- Fox Sparrow 2000
- National Bird-Feeding Month 2000
- Juncos 1999
- Fewer Birds 1999
- Weird Weather 1998
- A Perfect Fall Day 1998
- Apple Cider 1998
- Spring Arrives 1996
- National Bird-Feeding Month 1996
- Groundhog Day 1996
- Juncoes 1995
- White-throated Sparrow 1995
- Albinism and Leucism 1995
- The Winter Feather Report 1995
- Bird Feeding 1995
- Searching for the Elusive Groove-billed Ani 1995
- Fox Sparrows 1995
- Interest in birds 1994
- Feeding birds in winter 1994
- Juncoes (Placeholder) 1993
- Winter Oriole 1992
- Morning in America (Placeholder) 1992
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- Sparrows 1990
- Autumn Report 1990
- Christmas Bird Count Summary, 1989 1989
- Golden-crowned Sparrow II 1989
- How the Raven Saved Christmas (Original) 1989
- The Snowbird 1989
- Fall Visitors to Duluth 1989
- National Sparrow Awareness Week: Fox Sparrow 1989
- Yellow-rumped Warblers 1989
- Migration Update 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Early Spring Songs 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- Attracting Birds 1989
- Feeder contest 1989
- Bird Feeder Winter Contest 1988
- Bird Feeding 1988
- Migration Update 1988
- Signs of Spring 1988
- Junco--the Snowbird 1988
- Why Birds Attract People 1988
- Juncoes 1987
- Pot Pourri 1987
- Book Review: Bob Janssen's *Birds in Minnesota* 1987
- October Sparrows 1987
- At the Zoo 1987
- The Snowbird 1986
- Fall Birds Passing Through Right Now 1986
Sound Recordings
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 7 1/2 minutes of drumming and calls 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drumming: 5 sets 2024
- After the Ice Storm, in the Snow 2023
- Early spring: 14 minutes 2023
- Rusty Blackbird and Friends 2023
- American Tree Sparrow singing on migration 2022
- American Tree Sparrow: 4 songs 2022
- White-throated Sparrow: 5 minutes of singing 2022
- Dawn from my office window 2022
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- Fifty Minutes of Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Evening Grosbeaks respond to Merlin 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Dark-eyed Junco 2021
- Dark-eyed Junco 2021
- Morning song, April 10 2021
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- Downy Woodpecker: 3 1/2 minutes of drumming 2019
- Downy Woodpecker: 19 sets of drumming calls 2019
- Dawn on Hog Island, 2018 2018
- Dark-eyed Junco: 5 songs 2018
- Song Sparrow: 21 songs from Hog Island 2018
- Song Sparrow: Entire singing bout 2018
- Dark-eyed Junco and Fox Sparrow 2011
- Fox Sparrows and other April birds 2001