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JUNCO (male and female)
Published by the National Așșociation of Audubon Societies
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No. 33 Slate-colored Junco
Length 644 inches
This is the common “Snowbird” of the eastern
United States, over most of which it is an abun-
dant winter resident. Probably few winter birds
come in such large numbers about our feeding
stations. It is a friendly and sociable bird, and
not so shy as are some of the Sparrows. Many
an otherwise dreary winter scene is effe vored by
the cheery presence of this little wait of tite snow.
It loves ragged borders of wood indy, weed-
infested fields, and old fence vows Svergrown
with vines and briars. Here it may be seen feed-
ing in scattered companies, often with
Tree Spar-
rows. Its contented, social twittering, add a pleas-
ant and characteristic note to the winter bird-life.
The Junco, as a destroyer of yeegeseeds, is a val-
uable friend of the farmer, før,goming as it does
in great numbers and scatterius far and wide, it
consumes incalculable quantities of noxious seeds.
The nest is on the ground of grasses, and usu-
ally beside a stone or in a huich of weeds. There
are from three to four eggs, whitish, speckled
with reddish-brown.
Classification: Order Passeres. Family Fringillide.
Scientific Name: Junco hyemalis.
Range: Eastern North America, breeding from north-
ern United States northward, and locally south in moun-
tainous regions; winters south to the Gulf States.
No. 33 from set of 50 Winter Birds of the Northeastern United
States. Published by the National Association of Audubon So-
cieties, 1974 Broadway, New York City. Price per set, in a box,
$1.00 post paid,
