Dark-eyed Junco

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Dark-eyed Junco
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell University

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.

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