Birdwatching - 1860 🐦

🦉 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).

We call these thrushes - "rowanier". And I think there is no need to explain why, just look at my photos. When autumn comes, you can easily see these birds flying into trees with rowan berries. They pick these berries and swallow them whole. Actually, rowan is their main food for autumn and winter.

And when spring comes, they with great pleasure switch to searching for worms that crawl out of the ground, sensing moisture from the melted snow. At this time, they can be seen even in city parks, and in some cities even in courtyards. In the spring, due to hormones, they are bold, but when the mating season ends, they become shy and secretive.