Dark-eyed Junco

Junco hyemalis

A crisp little sparrow of forest floors and winter feeders, the Dark-eyed Junco wears a slate-gray hood over a clean white belly, flashing white outer tail feathers as it flushes. It comes in several regional forms, from slate-colored in the East to rusty-flanked Oregon birds in the West. Flocks descend on backyards across North America as the weather turns cold.