Crossword clues for junco
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junco \Jun"co\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, from Spanish junco "reed, bush," as in junco ave "reed sparrow," a bird of the Indies.
Wiktionary
n. Any bird of the genus ''(l mul Junco)'', which includes several species of North American finch.
WordNet
n. small North American finch seen chiefly in winter [syn: snowbird]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A junco , genus Junco, is a small North American bird. Junco systematics are still confusing after decades of research, with various authors accepting between three and twelve species. Despite having a name that appears to derive from the Spanish term for the plant genus Juncus (rushes), these birds are seldom found among rush plants, as these prefer wet ground, while juncos like dry soil.
Their breeding habitat is coniferous or mixed forest areas throughout North America, ranging from subarctic taiga to high-altitude mountain forests in Mexico and Central America south to Panama. Northern birds usually migrate farther south; southern populations are permanent residents or altitudinal migrants, moving only a short distance downslope to avoid severe winter weather in the mountains.
These birds forage on the ground. In winter, they often forage in flocks. They eat mainly insects and seeds. They usually nest in a well-hidden location on the ground or low in a shrub or tree.
Junco is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Ribadesella, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
It is in size, with a population of 144 ( INE 2006).
Usage examples of "junco".
If you can produce those, Junco, I shall believe in leprechauns, genies, and brown-eyed goddesses.
Of the brunets, in case Junco had removed her cloak, only one was of the right height and slimness, with erect posture and neatly coiled braids.
In the distance were the larger airliners, an Air Canada Jay, a China Airlines Junco, an American Bald Eagle, another Cardinal.
The biggest, like the Junco, even needed metal-composite implants to strengthen their skeletons.
Jets like the Junco needed much less in the way of the metals that cost so much to mine and process.
As the Junco 47 approached the terminal, it converged on the same destination, drawn by a squat, heavy-muscled, squash-faced creature whose rootstock had clearly been a bulldog.
The abbot himself, Brother Junco, was so smitten by the vision of her that he left the order and became yet another absinthe-swilling puppet performance artist in the underbelly of London.
In a slate blouse and slacks, she reminded me of a junco, pert, energetic.
T-adapter, then took a couple of frame-filling shots of a junco and a nuthatch.
In the calm brightness of winter sunshine, filling sheltered copses with warmth and cheer, you will watch the lingering blue-birds and robins and song-sparrows playing at summer, while the chickadees and the juncos and the cross-bills make merry in the windswept fields.
Occasionally, squirrels dashed across the path in front of the travelers, and juncos, nuthatches, and titmice descended from higher branches to investigate or scold.
Jetliners--Alitalia Cardinals, American Eagles, China Air Juncos, each identifiable by coloring or wing configuration--circled, waiting for their turns to land.
He had seen ordinary juncos on the ground beneath the bird feeder at home.
They spoke reverently of forest food webs, of chickarees and insects and mule deer, of coyote and bobcat and pine marten and black bear, of ravens and kinglets and owls, of chickadees and sapsuckers and juncos and woodpeckers.
College Avenue and north on College to Central Avenue crossing the Cascadilla Creek, and downhill to West Avenue and to the suspension bridge above Fall Creek, eastward then to frozen Lake Beebe, along the icy-reedthick shore of Lake Beebe where at dawn juncos and chickadees pierced the air with their sharp, inquisitive cries and he recalled the wild birds at the feeders of High Point Farm, waking to those identical cries, the mysterious speech of birds mixed with his childhood sleep.