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Dark-eyed Junco

Junco hyemalis
DEJU · Passerellidae · New World Sparrows
Forest provisional · from avonet
217heard

The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) 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 (Passerella iliaca), and its systematics are still not completely untangled.

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mean confidence
10 in wingspan

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Dark-eyed Junco
VJAndersonCC BY-SA 4.0
217Detections
33Days heard
0.69Mean confidence
2 AugFirst heard
27 SepLast heard
9,503Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

5 Aug 27 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home217 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.99
2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.99
2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.99
2026-08-08 06:43
9 s
0.99
2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.98
2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.98
2026-08-17 19:49
9 s
0.97
2026-08-17 19:50
9 s
0.97
2026-08-30 17:59
9 s
0.95
2026-08-10 05:36
9 s
0.94
2026-08-17 19:50
9 s
0.94
2026-08-09 14:22
9 s
0.94
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 11:30am Archive