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Dark-eyed Junco

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Mitch Waite

this picture is of an eastern towee not the junco and should be fixed

I don't think so...look at the picture of the eastern towhee in the whatbird guide it doesn't look anything alike.

Can  you be more specific about what Junco you are referring to? A URL would help.

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Hey MItch.. what medium do you use to do these drawings?

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IM: oldguyrich

The Oregon dark-eyed junco is just like the picture- but looking at the variations, the slate-colored junco picture is more like a white-winged junco and there isn't a picture of the darkest slate-colored variation at all.

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online armchair birding...

This is a terrible terrible old pic of a Dark-eyed junco located here in central Indiana in the fall/winter time. Its whole top half of ts body is black and the whole bottom half of the body is white.

 

 

the Oregon junos are the most numerous "form" in the winter... the book says.. around here we get the slate colored more often.. also called the "snow bird"... there are 6 subspecies , and Mitch has portrayed just one of them on that page, does he have  pages for the other 5? no doubt that the bird shown is an Oregeon, .. i think the colors he uses may be too bold, and might be more accurate if more muted, but they are placed in the right spots...Identifying this bird as a Towhee, shows exactly why it takes us so long to identify any bird that  someone send in for us to look at....we dont look at the book close enuf...if the Towhee has a black head, it won't have a brown back... if it has a brown head, it wont have a black  black...

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IM: oldguyrich

Did you notice the Variation tab for that bird?

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/125/variations/Dark-eyed_Junco.aspx

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the tabs wouldnt have helped anyway... no pictures of the typical colorations that most of us see most of the time? like the one pictured several pictures above here....

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IM: oldguyrich

oh you mean that wonderfully sharp photo above :) We'll get to making the Junco's more realistic, eventually.

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Don't get me wrong, your drawings are very good... it is just that in this case you didnt include in any tabs, the slate colored junco with the dark head , and back,  like we see most commonly here... and if i saw one in my yard, and looked on the site, i wouldnt find it....none of yours are dark over light....i realise, with 6 subspecies, it  would be harder, but...nothing at all against your drawings..

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IM: oldguyrich

This is the common dark-eyed junco where I live.

 None of the variations show the above. This is a fairly common variation, no?

 Great site and resource!
 

 

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Iowa Voice

Wow.  They sure eat well where you are!

Wow.  They sure eat well where you are!