Birdwatching - 1799 🐦

🦉 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 beginning of May I go to visit relatives in a neighboring region. In those places there are practically no forests, just steppe. But birds also live in such places.
Outside the city there are flooded meadows with lakes. And I like to go to one such meadow. There I constantly meet the same birds, and sometimes also those flying from wintering grounds.

This nightingale appears in these places just at the end of April - beginning of May, and he does not care at all about the weather. As you can see in the photo above, it stands on snow that has not yet melted everywhere.
But these birds arrive in my region only after 1-2 weeks.