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Yellow-eyed Junco

Junco phaeonotus

Photo by MikeGrageda
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21.8813, -100.346

Field Notes

Description:

Bright yellow eye with black lores. Bicolor bill. Pale gray above, with a bright rufous back; underparts paler gray.

Habitat:

I usually find it in oak and pine forest

Notes:

One of the most colorful sparrows

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Yellow-eyed Junco

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Comments (11)
LuisStevens
I saw one of them but with a couple of white "moustach", the rest of them are just the ones on your photos.
MikeGrageda
Oh! Hehe, sorry. Yeah this area is part of a natural spring shaded by surrounding trees. Water is used by some people but is not polluted at all. I added three more photos of this spotting for comparison.
Sachin Zaveri
Mike, Intention behind asking the place is that how that color / shade comes there, is there some kind of natural shade or something like human infected area.
Atul
fab spotting and interesting discussion
MikeGrageda
Thanks for your interest and effort Sachin Zaveri. The place where I saw this Junco is called El Potosi National Park, located in the Sierra Madre Oriental in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The habitat is oak forest. I got the coordinates using google earth: 21°53'18'' 100°21'38''.
Sachin Zaveri
Ok, after a long search over internet, come to notice that there in not such kind of color of Junco sparrow as first one seems, that color is due to some blue color spread in water which seen in nearer background of water, and just that color spread over sparrow’s body by which it seems little blue. Exactly which location of this spotting,
MikeGrageda
I can't tell the difference between a male and female Junco but I think photos are after and before getting wet
Sachin Zaveri
Male and female both are there? or the color difference is due to wet and dry

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