Every once in a while, someone asks what is the most common bird in our area. That depends on when you ask. Where you live. And what you mean by common. By any standard, however, the answer is easy in ...

In mid-June, your reporter briefly thrust his phone over this nest in a front-porch flower basket, just to see who was at home. Vancouver Audubon member Susan Saul identified this baby as a dark-eyed ...

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 ...

DEAR JOAN: Over the past four weeks, a pair of juncos have twice built nests and laid eggs in our hanging geraniums. We became aware when we observed the parent birds keeping a very close eye on us ...

Summer birdwatching can be slow and challenging. The spring migrants have moved through, the fall migrants haven’t returned yet and the winter birds are a few months out from arriving. But what makes ...

John James Audubon thought the junco might be America's bird. "There is not an individual in the Union that does not know the little snow-bird," he declared. In Audubon's day, the United States was ...

Dark-eyed juncos appear, almost ghost-like, about 20 minutes before sunrise. They slip onto the patio without my seeing their approach. Suddenly they're just there, poking about among the wind-piled ...