Birdwatching - 1598 🐦

🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Sylvia /Curruca communis)

📚 Sylvia lat.: silva forest, sylvania forest nymph, sylvia forest fairy
📚 Curruca unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal
📚 communis (lat.) ordinary, common, general

These birds are very clearly visible in early spring, early May, when there are no leaves and thickets yet. During the mating season, males find a territory suitable for nesting, in their opinion, and begin to sing actively. And these places are bushes.

It is interesting that in spring these bushes are bare, without foliage. And it is also interesting that it may not be bushes at all, but a tree felled by the wind. It is in such places that these birds like to be. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a meadow or a forest, as long as there are bushes.