Birdwatching - 1831 🐦

🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)

• Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer
• trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified as "wren", but in Aldrovandus (1599) it is "a kinglet without a tuft"; trokhalos, trokhiscus (Greek) round, oval, curved, spherical; trochilus (lat.) semicircular, curved

This unremarkable little bird arrives in the spring, in the so-called second wave. Simply put, when there is practically no snow anymore, insects appear. The bird actively sings notifying others of its territory. Moreover, the bird does this while sitting in the trees, although it itself is a resident of bushes and thickets.

The songs are somewhat reminiscent of chaffinch songs, but more gentle. After the bird finds a partner, they build a nest which is located on the ground in the bushes, and these can be not only growing bushes, but also fallen or cut down ones. The flight of birds to Africa occurs unnoticed, unlike its sister, the siberian chiffchaff, which for a short time participates in a mixed bird flock in September.