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Dark-eyed Junco


Dark-eyed Junco
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Copyright: michel Vincent (mvdisco) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 210 W: 0 N: 144] (1681)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-04-13
Categories: Birds
Camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5
Exposure: f/4, 1/800 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-04-13 20:26
Viewed: 544
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
Identification.

This small bird of the size of a bunting is more visible in Laurentides at the time of its migration with the autumn and spring. Like it spent the summer more to North, it arrives among us in October and announces the more cold days thus to us. This gray bird with the pink conical nozzle has the white belly. In flight, one immediately notices the white side feathers of the tail. The male has the head and the dark back gray or noirâtre what slices clearly with the bottom of the body which is white. The female and the young person are duller. Young A a striped chest making it resemble an evening bunting. The junco attends the mangers but prefers to be nourished on the ground. One then sees it scraping the ground in the search of ants, insects or seeds. It is thus often victim of the cats. Its song resembles the trille of the familiar but more musical bunting.

Habitat and nesting,
It is present everywhere at Canada and the United States. With Quebec, this bird niche about everywhere. One announces it to Nominingue, Mount-Bay-tree, in Abitibi, with the Lake St-Jean, in Gaspésie, to Labrador. It then attends the mixed forests or of conifers. It makes its nest on the ground, under the reversed trunks or the roots in the clearings, the edges of wood or them. The nest is made rootlets, of grass and foam, the papered interior of finer grasses. The female broods during 12-13 days, the 4?ufs blanchâtres mottled. That which niche in the south of Quebec can in the long term carry out two broods during the summer.

Behavior and tendency,
Make note, the juncos born in the North of Quebec migrate all worms the south. These juncos newcomer of North, can spend the winter in the area of Montreal or go to the United States. Perhaps those born in Laurentides or the area of Montreal will go until the medium of the United States or will not migrate. The south of Quebec east thus a zone where the juncos are more numerous, several spend the winter there. According to the data collected by the observers, one notices a light rise of manpower. The junco would benefit from new practices like the afforestation of the arable lands. Of more than new methods of cuts (selective, in bands) are favorable to the juncos since they preserve settlements of variable conifers of ages and support also the regeneration of a dense underwood. The slate-coloured junco, a small aggressive bird to discover!


Nom du modèle de l'appareil
DSC-H5
Date/heure de prise de vue
2008-04-13 15:12:48
Tv (Vitesse obturateur)
1/800
Av (Priorité à l'ouverture)
4.0
Correction d'exposition
0
Sensibiltié ISO
125
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  • NinaM Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 655 W: 0 N: 1623] (5300)
  • [2008-04-14 6:40]

C'est le temps des juncos ardoisés! Superbe photo, Michel, j'aime beaucoup la composition et le cadre vertical. La pose de l'oiseau est classique et nous permet de voir toute sa beauté. Merci!

Francine

bonjour Michel

tu as fait une très belle photo du Junco ardoisé, excellent POV
et cadrage vertical, excellent DOF, j'aimes son contact-visuel avec toi,
superbes netteté et superbe détails de l'oiseau et de la neige, TFS

Asbed

Bonjour Michel,

Ce junco ardois semble attirer par le photographe. La prise de vue permet de voir les détails et les couleurs de l'oiseau. Le sujet est bien cadré. Bon dimanche.

Pierre

Hello Michel,
Seems like he still has got cold feet!
Frankly I think the birds wait for spring as much as I do, perhaps even more, hehehe...
This one is well portrayed and presented in a fine composition!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2008-05-06 6:48]

Hello Michel

A very good low POV of this cute junco.
The plumage shows well and the dark feather definition is very good.I like the glint in the eye.
The image is well focused and sharp.
Nicely done.
TFS

Rob

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