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Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks April · New World Sparrows · BOU category AE

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Junco_hyemalis_5884.JPG: Walter Siegmund (talk) derivative work: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Dark-eyed Junco: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Dark-eyed Junco has been recorded in 19 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in April.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
ST82Dorset, England172024unverified
NZ53Hartlepool, England22024unverified
NK15Aberdeenshire, Scotland62023unverified
SM80Pembrokeshire, Wales12022unverified
TQ27Wandsworth, England42020 to 2021unverified
NT58East Lothian, Scotland12021unverified
SS42Devon, England32019unverified
SH71Gwynedd, Wales12017unverified
SM70Pembrokeshire, Wales12017unverified
NX40Isle of Man22016unverified
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland22015unverified
SU30Hampshire, England762011 to 2012unverified
SU20Hampshire, England12012unverified
SO91Gloucestershire, England22010unverified
TR01Kent, England152007 to 2008unverified
ST51Somerset, England22008unverified
TG04Norfolk, England102007unverified
HU67Sea, off Shetland Islands12003unverified
ND37Highland, Scotland12000unverified

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