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

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird Outside the city there are meadows near a river, and in

Every year at the end of July or beginning of August I go to the forest to pick raspberries. The path is long and hard, but it's worth it. There are a lot of The silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

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 - HUNGRY BIRD Bullfinch. This can be seen in mid-autumn, when these

🦉 The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Spatula (lat.) spoon, blade (about the beak) clypeata lat.: clypeus shield, barrier, clypeatus having a shield These ducks are not common in my city. They are

🦉 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Cuculus (lat.) cuckoo canorus (lat.) melodic, musical This nesting parasite appears in mid-May. In the forests you can hear them cuckooing. However, seeing this bird,

🦉 The little stint (Calidris minuta) (or Erolia minuta) Calidris kalidris or skalidris (Greek) unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle minuta Latin: minutus small, minutellus very small Erolia erolie (French)

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March It's hard not to notice these large and loud woodpeckers

🦉 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 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 whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis) Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal communis (lat.) ordinary, common. I meet

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black One day at the beginning of May I went to the meadows outside

🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal I rarely see these birds. For some reason, in my city there are

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating Looking at this stern bird, you might think that it is some kind of serious predator. By the way, I thought the same thing

🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified as

🦉 The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) Chroicocephalus Greek: khroizō to paint, kephalē head ridibundus lat .: ridēre laugh, ridibundus laughing In my city, these birds are not often found;

Translated from Greek, "βουρου δουσης" means house manager, housekeeper. And this very accurately describes this cute animal. They spend almost all their time searching for various foods, which

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These incredibly cute and charming birds are the true embodiment of friendship. They

🦉 The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) Anas (lat.) Duck platyrhynchos Greek: platus wide, rhynkhos beak Everyone knows and everyone has seen these ducks. They literally live everywhere. however,

In the forests (as well as groves and parks) of my city there live squirrels of various colors. Mostly, of course, these are the usual red colors, the majority of them. And sometimes you come across squirrels