Slate-colored Junco Junco hymelalis hyemalis
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Food The Slate-colored Junco hops on the ground scavangin for seeds in the snow or leaves. Half of its summer food is insects.
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Migration It spends the summer in Southern Canada and the Northern edge of the United States. It winters in the United States South to the Gulf Coast.
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Habitat Forests, winters in fields, gardens, parks, and roadside thickets.
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Nesting The nest is built by the female on ground edges and openings of forests. The male gathers the materials. The nest is well hieedn in cavities under roots, roads, ets. The nest is a deep cup made of mosses, twigs, grasses, rootlets, and lined with grasses and hairs. There the female lays 4-5 grey to blue brown spotted eggs, which hatch in 12 days.
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