Dark-eyed Junco

Description: 5-6 1/2" sparrow-sized, generally slate gray or gray-brown above, with white abdomen, sharply separating from gray of breast, white on sides of tail seen in flight, pink bill, often buff flank, Oregon variety differs slightly	Habitat: Conifers, edges of mixed forests, thickets, weedy fields, brushy areas, feeders, roadsides, parks, gardens. Very common in winter, especially at bird feeders.
Nesting: 3-6 brown-spotted pale green or blue eggs in a deep, well-made cup of grass, moss, bark strips, concealed on or near the ground in vegetation	Range: breeds from Alaska, across Canada south to Mexico and east to Georgia, winters south to Gulf Coast and Northern Mexico
Voice: loud sharp kit, chatters much like a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	Diet: insects, few spiders; wide variety of seeds, nestlings fed 100% insects, initially partly regurgitated.

Notes: In 1973 the AOU lumped the Slate-colored, Oregon, Pink-sided and Gray-headed Junco together as Dark-eyed Junco, .foraging flocks occasionally with chickadees, bushtits, nuthatches, kinglets, sparrows, in spring and fall, roosts in conifer trees, old nests, rock crevices, on ground, winter flocks of 10-30 with definite social ranking and mutually exclusive foraging territories.

When present in Oklahoma: present statewide in winter only, more prevalent in west