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A Dark-eyed Junco! It seems that there are many subspecies and I am quite sure that having seen many colour variations in our neighbourhood that ID is difficult. This fellow is close to what is called an “Oregon” Dark-eyed Junco with the scientific name being Junco hyemalis and the ssp name being, take your pick, oreganus, montanus, or shufeldti. Canada,Dark-eyed Junco,Fall,Geotagged,Junco hyemalis Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

A Dark-eyed Junco!

It seems that there are many subspecies and I am quite sure that having seen many colour variations in our neighbourhood that ID is difficult. This fellow is close to what is called an “Oregon” Dark-eyed Junco with the scientific name being Junco hyemalis and the ssp name being, take your pick, oreganus, montanus, or shufeldti.

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  1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
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    Perfect shot! And oh my goodness! That is a lot of ssp names! Can they not decide on just one? Posted 4 years ago
    1. View gary fast's profile
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      Consensus... so hard to come to! Ha! Posted 4 years ago
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    Cool! I had no idea there were different subspecies and color variations for this species. I had a whole bunch of juncos at my bird bath this morning. They are fun to watch :). Posted 4 years ago
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      Yes, fun to watch. They come to our suet feeders and are quite the scrappy bunch pushing out the smaller chickadees and the lone nuthatch that tries to visit. Posted 4 years ago
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        "Scrappy" is the perfect word to describe Juncos. I love the chickadees though bc they are seriously adorable. Also, I get a lot of wrens and find them to be very curious and perky. I rarely see nuthatches, but like watching them march up and down trees. Posted 4 years ago
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          Yes, we like the chickadees as well. The ones we have here are the Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Another common but not necessarily frequent visitor is the Spotted Towhee. Have to say it is the largest bird at our protected suet blocks. Posted 4 years ago
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            Sounds lovely! Posted 4 years ago
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              In these times it keeps us entertained! Posted 4 years ago
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                Definitely. I find myself birdwatching with my cats most mornings lately. Posted 4 years ago
                1. View gary fast's profile
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                  Good to have company. Posted 4 years ago

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The Dark-eyed junco

The dark-eyed junco is a species of junco, a group of small, grayish New World sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related fox sparrow, and its systematics are still not completely untangled.

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Similar species: Perching Birds
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Uploaded Dec 17, 2020. Captured Dec 6, 2020 15:42 in 315 Whaletown Rd, Whaletown, BC V0P 1Z0, Canada.
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  • E-M5MarkIII
  • f/6.4
  • 1/100s
  • ISO6400
  • 234mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.