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🦉 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)

This little nightingale is quite beautiful, the males have a shimmering "tie" of blue and red feathers on their chest. However, the colors depend on the region of residence. In northern species this color is red, and in the rest it is white. This beautiful male sits in the thicket of coastal bushes, and only the crackling song gives away his presence.

You can try for a long time to spot a bluethroat in the marshy thickets and not see it. The bird likes to hide. However, if you turn on the recordings of these birds' voices on your phone, a disheveled male will immediately jump out of the thicket, sit down in a prominent place and start singing even louder, as if declaring that this is his territory.