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🦉 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)

I meet these Swedish nightingales in May near the river flowing along the city, or, more precisely, on the coastline where bushes grow near the forest. These birds spend all their time in these bushes.
Finding them is easy. The male sits inside the bush and sings a song. From a distance you can see how it periodically flies up from the bushes and smoothly floats back down.

Coming close to these bushes, the male will try to fly further away, but will not stop singing. You can turn on the voices of these birds on your phone, and then an interested male will jump out of the bushes and look for who dared to encroach on his territory, where is this competitor. At this moment, the easiest way is to photograph him and observe his behavior.