Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis\

 Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis aikeni. Photograph taken within a residential community in Hereford, Arizona, November 2012. Photograph and identification courtesy of Bob Behrstock, Sierra Vista, Arizona (naturewideimages.com).

Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis cismontanus. Photograph taken within a residential community in Hereford, Arizona, October 2020. Photograph and identification courtesy of Bob Behrstock, Sierra Vista, Arizona (naturewideimages.com).

Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Photograph taken within a residential community in Hereford, Arizona, April 2010. Photograph and identification courtesy of Bob Behrstock, Sierra Vista, Arizona (naturewideimages.com).

Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis mearnsi. Photograph taken within a residential community in Hereford, Arizona, October 2020. Photograph and identification courtesy of Bob Behrstock, Sierra Vista, Arizona (naturewideimages.com).

Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis shufeldti. Photograph taken in the greater Santa Ynes region of California, March 2011. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Tom Bartol, Carlsbad, California.

The Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, is a member of the Passerellidae Family of New World Sparrows. They are small in stature. In Mexico they are found within the Atlantic Slope southern Coachella to southern Veracruz, and in Baja California and within the Pacific Slope from Sonora to central Jalisco at elevations up to 2,040 m (6,700 feet). From a conservation perspective the Dark-eyed Junco is currently considered to be of Least Concern with stable, widely distributed populations. They are found in pine and juniper forests and in dry-belt forests and semiarid scrub and brushy ravines. They consume arthropods and seeds and occasionally on a seasonal basis fruits and grains.