As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FEMALE BIRDS Chaffinch The females of these birds are very similar in appearance

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red I often hear the same question: "Where do bullfinches fly in the spring?" Well, to

🦉 The Baikal bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula cineracea), also known as the grey bullfinch, grey-headed bullfinch or great bullfinch Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red cineracea lat.: cineris - ash, cinereus,

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

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail We call this bird the "flaming tail" because of its bright red tail, which looks like a tongue

🦉 The Eurasian penduline tit or European penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) Remiz (Polish) Remez, dates back to lat. remissus quiet, calm pendulinus pendulus (lat.) pendant (name - for a suspended nest)

🦉 The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Mergus merganser) > - Mergus (Greek) unidentified waterfowl mentioned in the texts of Pliny, Horace, and other ancient Roman authors > - merganser

🦉 The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) > - Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale It's not often I encounter these famous forest singers. These birds love dense thickets, like various bush-covered river

🦉 The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) Tringa (Greek) waterbird the size of a thrush in the texts of Aristotle ochropus Greek: ōkhros buffy, pous leg This long-legged sandpiper prefers to live in swamps

🦉 The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about Nightingales? There are 4 species of nightingales living

🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to These beautiful

🦉 The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) Ficedula fi cedulinus (medieval lat.): “A small bird that feeds on figs and turns into a black-headed warbler in winter ”(from: Jobling, 2010) hypoleuca

🦉 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 common grasshopper warbler or just grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) Locustella (Latin) diminutive of locusta grasshopper; cricket naevia naevius (Ixoreus) lat.: naevius spot, naevius spotted

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This tiny, 9-gram bird lives primarily in coniferous forests, but can also be found in mixed

🦉 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 I love going to the

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is -FREE THEME How about fluffy bullfinches? Common Bullfinch These adorable

🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary This bird is a real mystery to me. For some

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big This most common woodpecker species can be found in any forest, at any time of year.