Birdwatching - 2171 🐦

🦉 The common redpoll or mealy redpoll (Acanthis flammea)

• Acanthis in ancient Greek. mythology daughter of Autonous and sister Acanthus; when Acanthis sobbed over the murdered Acanthus, the gods turned her into a bird.
• flammea lat.: flamma flame, fire, fiery color flammeus

These northern birds can be found in my region from mid-October to early spring. They fly in from far north where they live. At this time they are in large noisy flocks, constantly signaling to each other so as not to get lost.

Sometimes in such flocks you can see a rarer species of redpolls - the Arctic. They are whiter, they have almost no mottled stripes on the bottom of the body. And occasionally their close relatives - siskins - join these large flocks.