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dark-eyed junco

[ dahrk-ahyd ]

noun

  1. a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.


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They also recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California towhee, dozens of turkey vultures circling overhead, a dark-eyed junco, a mockingbird, an Anna’s hummingbird and a black phoebe.

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This oil contains odorous compounds— in the case of the dark-eyed junco, it smells like leaf litter and soil.

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For example, the house finch almost always dominates the purple finch, and the purple finch almost always dominates the dark-eyed junco, but when house finch and junco face off directly, the junco often dominates.

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I just looked it up in his bird book and there it was, exactly as he said, a dark-eyed junco.

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Some 90% of the total loss came from just 12 bird families and 19 widespread bird species such as the dark-eyed junco, common grackle and house sparrows.

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