Dark-eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis
Dark-eyed Junco · Green-Wood Cemetery · 16 February 2026
A junco on the ground under the cemetery trees, where it does all its feeding. Juncos breed in the conifer forests of Canada and the northern mountains and move into New York's parks only for the winter, arriving in the same push of cold as the first real snow - which is why the old name is snowbird.
The flocks are strictly ranked. Older males dominate and stay furthest north; the young and the females go further south to avoid them, so a winter flock in Brooklyn is mostly senior birds.
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