Junco

Quick meaning: Junco is a noun meaning Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow.

Meaning

Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic.

Example Sentences

Junco, the Reed-Sparrow; a Bird.

Arundinaceus. Brown-ferruginous; beneath whitiſh-teſtaceous; with tail-feathers banded and reddiſh at the apex. The junco of Geſner [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Aldrovand [i.e., Ulisse Aldrovandi], [John] Ray, and [Francis] Willughby.

The slate-coloured junco is an infrequently reported host; probably it is molested very slightly by the brown-headed cowbird. [...] Mills (1957, pp. 25–27) noted that E. C. Allen found a fledgling cowbird attended and fed by juncos near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 17, 1933.

Among many others secured by him, I noticed the eggs and parent birds of the American Widgeon, the Black duck, Canvass-back duck, Spirit duck (Bucephala albeola); small Black-head duck (Fulix affinis); the Wax-wing, (Ampelis garrulus); the Kentucky warbler, the Trumpeter swan, the Duck hawk (Falco anatum), and two species of juncoes.

Word Forms

• juncos
• juncoes

Synonyms for junco

Depending on context, synonyms include snowbird.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snowbird, junonia, sparrow, coucal, jacanid, jacana.

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