🦉 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 These beautiful forest

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big Now the birds are actively mating season. Males perform courtship rituals for the

In the spring, at the end of April, when it is already warm and there is no snow (mostly), I often see something running quickly right under my feet and hiding under old leaves. And this turns out to be

🦉 The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) Chloris khlōros (Greek) green; yellow These birds are wintering and sedentary, but they fly away from my cold region. But with the

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) This species of thrush should, in theory, appear after winter later than its brother,

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating These guys consistently arrive on April 2 or 4. And this year they were already in my city on the 2nd. And I even saw them

🦉 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 great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large One day in mid-April, I was leading an ornithological excursion on the outskirts of the city. And a group of people and I met an interesting

🦉 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

🦉 The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus) (outdated name - Uragus Sibiricus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite Uragus oura (Greek) tail, ago (Latin) set in motion, make sibiricus

On the outskirts of the city there is a sports facility in the form of a running stadium, next to it there is a forest alley. In this forest alley live tame birds and squirrels with chipmunks. Athletes

🦉 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 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 Now these

🦉 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 These agile

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

🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) alba (lat.) white There is very

Spring comes and wild animals begin to exchange their winter fur for summer. These photos show wild forest squirrels that I met in an old cemetery near the forest. They just recently appeared, one might

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big You can already hear these birds drumming on the tree. The mating season and pair

🦉 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 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 would like to believe