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🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

• Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail
• garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to

In winter, these birds are very noticeable. After all, they raid rowan trees in huge flocks to feast on their berries. Unlike, for example, bullfinches, they swallow the berries whole, along with the seeds and pulp. However, in winter, the berries often become frozen and the birds eat them, get frostbite and fall down under the tree. Many people mistakenly believe that this is because the berries supposedly fermented and the birds got drunk, but this is not true.

At this time, these birds are already flying back en masse to the taiga forests and to the north, to their home. And they can still be found in flocks until the beginning of May.
And it is very rare to see these birds on the ground (see the first photo).