Birdwatching - 1966 🐦

🦉 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)

Near the river that flows along the entire city, and not even just one, there is a coastal zone that is flooded in the spring due to melted snow. There are also dense bushes in which some species of birds live. One of which is this Swedish nightingale.

Walking along the edge of the cliff, I heard the song of a male, I went down to the bushes as best I could, but the water did not allow me to go further into the depths. So I just turned on the voice of this bird on the phone so that it would come to me. The male, hearing the voice of his competitor, immediately jumped out of the bushes and began to sing more intensely. This is how he marked his territory.