Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...

I suspect the great naturalist and pioneer ornithologist was optimistic in his estimation of junco familiarity. His “snow-bird” is now formally known as the dark-eyed junco, and back in Audubon’s time ...

GRAND FORKS – The other day – it was Monday, Oct. 17 – about 30 dark-eyed juncos fell out of a tree in our backyard. Actually, that verb rings false. Better to write that the juncos dropped out of the ...

There are times in life when you just have to thumb your nose at rules established by others. That was how my wife felt while sitting at a bird feeder in Portal, Arizona. She was going for a “big ...

Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when dark-eyed junco birds can be spotted. These feathered creatures travel to the United States for the winter, where they might ...

"Birds of New England" written in 1870 by Edward A. Samuels, a volume I have owned many years, offers an interesting introduction to "The Snowbird," the species that we today know by many other names ...