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| The Junco is a widespread and common small sparrow, the Dark-eyed Junco is most familiar as a winter visitor to bird feeders. It comes in several distinctly different looking forms, but all are readily identified as "juncos" by their plain patterning, dark hood, and white outer tail feathers. Juncos are the "snowbirds" of the middle latitudes. In the eastern United States, they appear in all but the most northern states only in the winter, and then retreat each spring. Some juncos in the Appalachian Mountains remain there all year round, breeding at the higher elevations. These residents have shorter wings than the migrants that join them each winter. Longer wings help the migrants fly long distances It's nest is a cup, female and male build the nest together. They have 2 broods per year. They hatch 3 to 5 eggs . They eggs are whit with reddish brown makings. The female incubates 12 to 13 days The fledgings appear anywhere from 10 to 13 days and the dad and mom both feed the youngsters. They eat seeds, insects and will come to feed at bird feeders. They really like to feed under bird feeders. . |
| DARK-EYED JUNCO Junco hycmalis Size 5 and one-half inches |
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