🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large Some of my favorite birds. While I’m writing this, two males are singing a spring mating song in the yard, it’s very happy and pleasant

I would like to say thank you to dear @nelinoeva for this competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - Lucky Shot In late autumn, in a coniferous forest, I met Nutcracker.

🦉 The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus) (outdated name - Uragus Sibiricus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite Uragus oura (Greek) tail, ago (Latin) set in motion, make sibiricus

🦉 The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) Picoides picus (lat.) woodpecker, -oides similar tridactylus tridaktylos (Greek) three-toed This is a special species of woodpecker that stays

In the city parks of my city there are birds that live there permanently and do not even fly through the forests in the spring. The birds have lived here from generation to generation, so they are very

🦉 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 yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These yellow birds are few in number in the forests of

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big Sometimes it happens that there are simply no birds in the forest. As a rule, this

I would like to say thank you to dear @nelinoeva for this competition. You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - Free Theme. I decided to show you birds in the snow. It is not

🦉 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 European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) Chloris khlōros (Greek) green; yellow Despite the fact that these birds are very noticeable in the spring, I have great difficulty

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range Outwardly, these birds are similar to chaffinches, especially

For some reason unknown to me, I began to see these cute animals rarely. As a rule, they are clearly visible in the spring, as soon as they awaken from hibernation and leave their homes. In summer they

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black I love to walk through the meadow outside the city in early

🦉 The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) Falco phalcōn (Greek), falco (Lat.) falcon; the word falco is derived from falx (sickle, scythe) and means "curved in the form of a sickle", which is associated

🦉 The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting schoeniclus skhoinos (Greek) reed; reeds; -cola (lat.) inhabitant; skhoiniklos (Greek) a small coastal bird mentioned

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red These birds arrive late, around mid-May, almost the very last. And this

On the river flowing along the city you can meet various ducks. Shoveler. It is not often found in these places; it looks like a mallard, but it has a wide beak. The common merganser During the last half

🦉 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 A very

🦉 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