Birdwatching - 1676 🐦

🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis)

📚 Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal
📚 communis (lat.) ordinary, common.

These birds are typical inhabitants of the bushes, and it does not matter where these bushes are located. I met these birds in the forests, and in the meadows, and on the banks. Moreover, in the forest they don’t even really need bushes, a tree felled by the winds is enough, in the branches of which the bird will feel at home.

Now in spring you can see and hear how males actively sing and defend their territories. As a rule, the male is inside the bushes, but if he understands that something is happening around, someone has encroached on his territory, then he crawls up from the depths of the bushes, puffs up his feathers on his head and grumbles with displeasure.