Birdwatching - 3317 🐦

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🦉 The Siberian blue robin (Larvivora cyane)

  • Larvivora - Latin: larva caterpillar, vorare - to devour
  • cyane - dark blue

This blue nightingale is a rarity in my city. I've only encountered it twice. And that time it was in an old cemetery, in a hard-to-reach place hidden by dense thickets and

The bird is very shy, which is probably why I've seen it so rarely. It deliberately chooses hard-to-reach places. But I was only able to locate it by its call.
This male was jumping from branch to branch with some kind of insect in its beak, which I realized was food for nestlings.

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Nikon D5200Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary
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