🦉 The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk Accipiter accipere (lat.) to grab nisus according to ancient Greek mythology Nisus (or Nisus), king of Megara, and

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red These charming plump creatures can be said to appear in cities in winter. However, this is not

🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis) Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal communis (lat.) ordinary, common. These

🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizable

🦉 The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius brandtii ) Garrulus lat.: garrire to chat, babble, chirp, garrulus talkative, chirping, noisy; ax prone to.. glandarius glandis, glans (lat.) acorn brandtii brandti,

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red In my city, these red sparrows usually live near the forest near the

🦉 The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) Picoides picus (lat.) woodpecker, -oides similar tridactylus tridaktylos (Greek) three-toed This northern taiga species of woodpecker differs

🦉 The brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) Lanius (lat.) butcher; killer (name - for impaling prey on thorns like butcher's carcasses) cristatus lat.: crista crest, cristatus crested, cristatella reduced.

🦉 The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) Sitta sittē (Greek) mentioned by Aristotle and other ancient Greek. by the authors of the bird, something similar to the woodpecker europaea (lat.)

Yesterday I decided to go to the forest to visit my feathered friends. We had snow, but the weather is warm. In the company of Great Tits and Willow Tits I met a Azure Tit. Great tits are certainly numerous.

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March These large woodpeckers with long thin necks and crazy

🦉 The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) Turdus (lat) - Thrush pilaris the etymology is mysterious, although it is now believed that pilaris in later Latin means simply thrush (Jobling, 2017). However, since

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush These bush dwellers arrive late, around

🦉 The little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) Charadrius Greek: kharadra gorge, ravine, kharadrios nocturnal bird mentioned in the Bible dubius (lat.) doubtful, unclear These little sandpipers are the

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating In these photos of mine you see kites in early spring. How are they different the rest of the time? Their plumage! In spring,

🦉 The willow tit (Poecile montanus) Poecile poikilis (Greek) an unidentified small bird mentioned in ancient texts montanus (lat .) : mōns, montis mountain, mountain range, montanus mountain Spring is

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) I met these charming young thrushes in early June. A couple of little ones were

🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] This is one of the most cautious birds. Even despite its very bright coloring, it

🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) curruca - is an unidentified bird name mentioned in poems by the ancient Roman poet Juvenal This bird is called something like "warbler liar / fibber!".

🦉 The European robin (Erithacus rubecula) Erithacus erithakos (Greek) unidentified small bird in the works of ancient authors; erythros (Greek, lat.) red rubecula ruber (lat.) red, reddish, rubeculus