🦉 The sand martin (Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin 📚 Riparia ripa (lat.) river bank, riparius coastal These small agile

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) 📚 Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle I met a small flock of these colorful birds near the river bank where a small forest is located.

🦉 The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker 📚 Picus (lat.) woodpecker; in Romanesque mythology, Peak, or Picus, the Roman god of forests and the king of Latium,

🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) 📚 Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller 📚 minor (Latin) - smaller A very cute little woodpecker

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) 📚 Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird 📚 Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal This bird is a close relative of the white

🦉 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 It

🦉 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 met this female

🦉 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) 📚

Thanks to @nelinoeva for the contest. You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - free theme. Well, I decided to show you rare birds, which I have met only once. The little stint

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) 📚 Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head 📚 dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush I noticed that over the past

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) 📚 Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red These plump birds arrive in late autumn with the arrival of cold weather. They can often

🦉 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,

🦉 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 common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) 📚 Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail Spring is the height of the mating season for animals. Experienced and adult birds start it even in late

🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Sylvia /Curruca communis) 📚 Sylvia lat.: silva forest, sylvania forest nymph, sylvia forest fairy 📚 Curruca unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems

The Siberian chipmunk, The Asian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk These guys hibernate around mid to late October, depending on the weather. Until then, they are carefully prepared,

🦉 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

🦉 The common gull or sea mew (Larus canus) 📚 Larus (lat.) seagull; sea ​​bird 📚 canus (lat.) gray At the end of April, as soon as the ice begins to drift and the big river thaws from the ice, you can

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) 📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat 📚 major (lat.) big In summer, the birds are busy with their fledglings. They teach them to live

🦉 The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) 📚 Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) Calliope - the eldest of the muses, the goddess of chants, the muse of epic poetry Funny nightingale, but unfortunately