Birdwatching - 1794 🐦

🦉 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).

This species of thrush is a wintering species, and during the winter they gather in large flocks and roam through forests and even cities. They can be seen on trees with rowan berries, which they eat in winter.

But something went wrong this year... In the fall, I didn’t see them at all in the forests of my city. And now, winter has already arrived, they are also nowhere to be found. This usually happens when winters are very cold.
But when spring comes, they will appear again and even their behavior will change. They will be bolder due to hormones and will even go close to people.
And yes, I took these photos in the spring. During the rest of the year it is not easy to photograph these birds.