Birdwatching - 1830 🐦

🦉 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).

When spring is just coming, the snow is actively melting, exposing the ground, you can wait for the arrival of these birds. In general, they are sedentary and can live in winter, but in my region it is cold, so they prefer to fly to where it is warm. And they return only in the spring. And you can notice that these birds are numerous and noisy. They live in small flocks, and this allows them to defend their territory well.

As soon as they see a bird of prey on their territory, they bravely attack it. After which, for example, you can see worn-out kites without feathers in their tails. These thrushes also hate corvids.
But if danger approaches from the ground, then there are weapons for this case too. Thrushes simply bombard them with droppings. By the way, I was also subjected to such shelling when I entered their territory😀