Birdwatching - 1667 🐦

🦉 The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

📚 Ficedula fi cedulinus (medieval lat.): “A small bird that feeds on figs and turns into a black-headed warbler in winter ”(from: Jobling, 2010)
📚 hypoleuca hypoleucos Greek: hypo below, a little, leukos white, hypoleukos whitish

Despite its name, this bird feeds on various beetles and caterpillars. Yes, it can catch a fly, but for the most part its diet consists of insects, which it catches from the surface. By the way, due to the fact that this bird arrives early from wintering, and the weather can be completely unpredictable, the bird is able to eat frost-resistant stink bugs, which no other bird eats.

Another feature of this bird is its appearance. And to be more precise, it is the color of plumage. Young birds and females are painted in a light, faded brown color, but in adult males, the color is very diverse. It varies from light brown like in females to almost black.
Look at these photos, they are only males, they have different colors.