Walk outside and listen. Spring has officially begun and bird songs are everywhere. But, what are those birds serenading you every day? A list compiled by the website Stacker of the top birds spotted ...

We don’t need snow flurries to tell us winter has come to the Inland Northwest. We have the arrival of dark-eyed juncos. The sparrow variety, which doesn’t look like a typical streaked sparrow, is a ...

I once spotted an Oregon junco in the Pacific Northwest, which had a black head, reddish-brown back and sides, and a smaller area of white on the breast. The white outer tail feathers (found in all ...

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 ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Juncos are everywhere! Throughout the winter, the flock visiting my feeders was about 25. With the return of the snows last week, their numbers have exploded. A hundred or more? Counting ...

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 ...