🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow If seagulls are the street hooligans of the bird world, then common terns are their aristocratic cousins.

🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller This little woodpecker is like

🦉 The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) flava flavus (lat.) yellow,

🦉 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

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard Every year a pair of these predators settles in a hard-to-reach forest near a meadow and a hill. And every July I go to visit them, by that

🦉 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

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red If winter wanted to choose a feathered mascot, the bullfinch would be ideal. This plump beauty

🐿️ The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), also called Eurasian red squirrel Honestly, I would probably even single out urban squirrels as a separate subspecies. They are not particularly burdened with anything,

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This modest, sparrow-sized creature

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This little one is not called "little tit" for nothing - it really is hardly bigger

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle If birds had carnivals, the goldfinch would definitely win the prize for best costume. Judge for

🦉 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

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed If birds were soft toys, this bird would be a favorite. tiny body (weighs about the same

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large This bird is unmistakable: a bright yellow belly with a black "tie" that extends to the tail in males, while in females it seems

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal At first glance, it is the most ordinary bird:

🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) fringilla (lat.) - finch; fi nco (Old German), fi nc (Old English) coelebs coelebs (lat.) - single, idle, unmarried When in early spring,

🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) curruca - is an unidentified bird name mentioned in poems by the ancient Roman poet Juvenal This modest bird is not numerous in my city, compared to other birds

🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Alcedo alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa.

🦉 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.)

🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back This woodpecker, although similar to its closest