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

🦉 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 rook (Corvus frugilegus) Corvus (lat.) raven frugilegus Latin: frugis, frux fruit, legĕre to collect For some reason unknown to me, these birds do not live in my city. They can only be found near

🦉 The citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) citreola lat .: citrus, citreus

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

🦉 The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) Anas (lat.) Duck platyrhynchos Greek: platus wide, rhynkhos beak Sometimes I am very surprised by the behavior of birds. These ducks live in my city on

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard I don’t know exactly when these birds arrive. One thing I can say is that I always meet them no earlier than July. It is likely that they

🦉 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 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 long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed At the moment, meeting these birds is not so easy. They are very secretive and silent,

On Thursday I finally visited the forest which is located near the river bank. At the top of the hill I met a cute squirrel. I took a photo with my phone, since I didn’t have time to take the camera out

On Thursday I finally visited the forest which is located near the river bank. At the top of the hill I met a cute squirrel. I took a photo with my phone, since I didn’t have time to take the camera out

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark These small, active birds live mainly in coniferous forests, but they can also be found in

🦉 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 adore the very

🦉 The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) Chroicocephalus Greek: khroizō to paint, kephalē head ridibundus lat .: ridēre laugh, ridibundus laughing In my city, these birds can be seen near

🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish These pinocchios arrive around the beginning of May, when it is already warm and the

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March These large, graceful woodpeckers are quite loud and noisy,

🦉 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

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush These birds arrive last, in late spring,

🦉 The azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus hyperrhiphaeus) Cyanistes kyaneos (Greek), cyaneus (Latin) dark blue cyanus Greek: kyanos dark blue hyperrhiphaeus Greek: hyperrheō to overflow, phaios dark, dull In