Birdwatching - 2078 🐦

🦉 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)

These colorful nightingales inhabit bushes, but you will not see them in forests, and you need to look for them near rivers, lakes, or in meadows. Simply put, in open spaces. It is very interesting to watch males during the active period of mating games. Males sit inside a bush and fly up singing, then finish it by smoothly hovering.

I come across females extremely rarely, they are incredibly secretive and it is easiest to see them in the summer in July when both parents are busy searching for food for their children.