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On the visit to High Mountain's Franklin Clove on Friday, my wife Patty and I also came across a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos.
We wondered if there's a collective noun for juncos. The Internet offered a few answers, none definitive as far as I could tell.
Someone proposed "a junket of juncos." What do you think?
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Yo Jim . . .With their white outer rectrices, and with a flock milling about, they look like square dancers with
flared skirts; and since the Latin for DEJU is Junco hyemalis, how about “Hyemalis Hoedown”?
(Too big a stretch . . .???) . . . .CC -
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Yo Jim . . .With their white outer rectrices, and with a flock milling about, they look like square dancers with
flared skirts; and since the Latin for DEJU is Junco hyemalis, how about “Hyemalis Hoedown”?
(Too big a stretch . . .???) . . . .CC
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