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Dark-eyed Junco (Slate Colored)

Junco hyemalis hyemalis

Photo by SheaEckert
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Description:

"This group has dark slate-gray head, breast and upperparts. Females are brownish gray, sometimes with reddish-brown flanks. They breed in North American taiga forests from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to the Appalachian Mountains, wintering through most of the USA. They are relatively common across their range."

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Nice, we used to call them Snow birds when we lived in the North.

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PublishedJanuary 29, 2012

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