Birdwatching - 1973🐦

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis)

• Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird
• Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal

This forest relative of the white wagtail can easily be found in the forest in the spring as soon as the snow melts. Males actively sing songs, and during the performance they fly up and smoothly hover down, this is the so-called courtship display.

On the ground where they are looking for food, it is not easy to see them, because they literally merge with their surroundings. And only movement gives them away.

• Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird
• richardi Charles Richard (1745–1835), director of the postal service in Lunéville France, collector

This was the first time I met this species of wagtail. If, of course, I identified the species correctly, because this is not easy, they are literally similar to each other, differing in small things like the length of the rear claw and the shade of the underside of the body. I met him in the steppe; in fact, here we call him “steppe pipit.”