🦉 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)
Whenever I go to the coast, I always look for this beautiful, colorful nightingale. After all, to learn about the birds living nearby, just listen to its songs. It incorporates fragments of other birds' calls it has recently heard into its songs.
And if I can’t get closer to him, I turn on the voices of these birds on the speaker of my phone, and then the male himself flies closer and begins to sing even more intensely.
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Nikon D5200 | Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary |