Birdwatching - 1728 🐦

🦉 The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)

📚 Turdus (lat) - Thrush
📚 pilaris the etymology is mysterious, although it is now believed that pilaris in later Latin means simply thrush (Jobling, 2017). However, since lat. "pilus" hair, pilare to remove hair, but pila ball, pilaris anything related to ball, and pilarius is a juggler (and at the same time, the Greek "trikhos" is hair, and "trikhas" is a thrush!), all this puzzling. Two assumptions arise. First: when the fieldfare in summer, how usually pulls earthworms out of the ground, this can be associated with hair removal (pilare). Second: when in autumn and winter the fieldberry picks rowan berries and throws them up, swallows, it may resemble a juggler (pilarius).

Of all the bird children, the thrushes I have met the most. They are most often seen and heard. They are always in sight. And it seems that they are so easily accessible and unprotected. But that's not the case at all! Thrushes are very fiercely protective of their territories, and even more fiercely protective of their children.

Moreover, other species of thrushes, seeing that their fellows are offended, can also come to their aid. I often see in the summer how blackbirds attack birds of prey without fear of anyone, mostly kites. If the danger is in the form of people or dogs, then the thrushes bombard them with droppings. I, too, have been repeatedly attacked by them.😁