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🦉 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 miniature birds, smaller than a sparrow but with an incredible reserve of energy, seem to be created to disturb the winter silence. With the arrival of late autumn and the first frosts, these birds begin to appear in the city forests in large noisy flocks.

The males have a beautiful crimson hue on their chest, while the females are more modest, in gray-beige tones). But their main adornment is their restless character. They never sit still! A flock of redpolls is a whirlwind of movement: the birds constantly fly from birch to birch, deftly hang on thin branches, pecking out seeds, and all this - with a characteristic continuous chirp.