Birdwatching - 1623 🐦

🦉 The bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

📚 Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale
📚 svecica suecicus (lat.) Swedish; the name svecica, according to the history of the description, is not a toponym, but is given for the color of the male's chest:
Olof Rudbeck junior, Swedish botanist and birdwatcher, mentor to Carl Linnaeus,
having discovered the bluethroat in 1695 in Lapland, he gave it the name Avis Carolina in honor of the Swedish king Charles XI and the blue-yellow Swedish flag (in those days the yellow color on the flag was more reddish), and K. Linnaeus in 1758, when the absolute power of the monarchy in Sweden was no longer, considered the name svecica more correct than carolina (Jobling, 2010)

Every year at the end of April-beginning of May I go to the neighboring region. And every year in flooded meadows I meet these wonderful nightingales. It is surprising that at this time they are already here, because the weather is unpredictable, cool. But this does not prevent these birds from occupying territories and spending the mating season.

In my city, these birds appear only after a couple of weeks. And as usual, you can find them near the rivers, in the bushes. Males sing songs that consist of the voices of other birds, and sometimes fly up in a smooth gliding over the bushes.