Dark-eyed Junco (IMAGE)

Michigan State University

Dark-eyed Junco

Caption

Danielle Whittaker, BEACON researcher, used dark-eyed juncos to demonstrate how bacteria in a bird's preen gland determines the scent of the bird

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Nicole M. Gerlach

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