We don’t need snow flurries to tell us winter has come to the Inland Northwest. We have the arrival of dark-eyed juncos. The sparrow variety, which doesn’t look like a typical streaked sparrow, is a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — These snowbirds stay North in winter and are among the visible indicators of the cold weather to come locally. They’re slate-colored birds called Dark-eyed Juncos. “Yes, the Dark ...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

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 ...

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This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:17 p.m. Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the birds are anything but ordinary.

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