Yellow-eyed Junco, Junco phaeonotus

Yellow-eyed Junco, 1/13/05, Hotel Mirador, Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico

This was the common Junco around the Hotel Mirador on the rim of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua. I did get one picture of a Dark-eyed Junco of the Gray-headed subspecies in with the flock of Yellow-eyed; the plumage of the two is similar except that the upperpart rufous extends from the mantle to the wing coverts in the Yellow-eyed, as shown here.


Yellow-eyed Junco, 1/13/05, Hotel Mirador, Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico