Birdwatching - 1836 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus)

• Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors.

These birds can rarely be seen below on the ground, since almost their entire life is spent in the upper tiers of forests.
The birds are gregarious, and starting in the fall, when the pairs have grown offspring, they begin to unite into large noisy flocks. You can see these flocks flying high through the forest.

In spring, flocks break up into pairs. Males, sitting on branches, actively sing mating songs, which consist of fast, inaudible chirping and gurgling sounds and trills ending in a drawn-out hoarse sound.
They live in coniferous and mixed forests. There are a small number of them in the forests that I visit, and they can only be found in areas where tall coniferous trees grow.