Species group · Birds
Juncos
WAnimals has 3 species of junco, spread across 2 families (Emberizidae, Passerellidae).
- 3 species
- 2 families
- 5 countries
- 79 parks
- Weight
- 17 g – 30 g
- Length
- 13 cm – 17 cm
- Lifespan
- 8 – 11 years
Ranges calculated from the entries that record the figure, not from all 3.
All 3 species of juncos on WAnimals
Each one has its own full entry. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Conservation status
1 especies in this group están en alguna categoría de riesgo real según la UICN.
See the global conservation statusWhere they live
Recorded in 5 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Where to see them
Did you know…
Its geographical forms are so different that until 1973 they were classified as five or six separate species, and numerous subspecies with very different plumages are still recognised today.
From Dark-eyed Junco
There are estimated to be more than six hundred million individuals, which places it among the most abundant land birds in North America.
From Dark-eyed Junco
The population that colonised the campus of the University of California, San Diego in the 1980s has developed measurable changes in behaviour and morphology within a few decades, and is a case study in rapid urban evolution.
From Dark-eyed Junco
It is one of the few birds occupying the páramo of the Costa Rican summits, an environment that exists only above 3,000 metres and that in Central America is reduced to a handful of massifs.
From Volcano Junco
It is extraordinarily trusting with people: it comes up to the mountain huts and to walkers on Chirripó looking for scraps, behaviour typical of birds that evolved without land predators.
From Volcano Junco
Its bright yellow eyes against dull plumage make it unmistakable: no other bird on those summits has them.
From Volcano Junco
The eradication of feral goats from Guadalupe Island in 2007, after more than a century of degradation, is one of the most ambitious island restoration projects in Latin America, and the cypress forest has begun to regenerate for the first time in generations.
From Guadalupe Junco
The island lost several endemic species before that intervention, among them an owl and a kinglet of its own: the junco is one of the survivors.
From Guadalupe Junco