🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large I really love these cuties, they are one of my favorite birds. And many people underestimate their intelligence and know practically nothing

🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizable

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red These cute, plump birds are the epitome of winter. They are very fond of being depicted on various

🦉 The ruff (Calidris pugnax) Calidris kalidris or skalidris (Greek) unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle pugnax Latin: pugna battle, struggle, pugnax warlike, pugnacious These long-legged pinocchios live

🦉 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 and

🦉 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 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