🦉 The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus) (outdated name - Uragus Sibiricus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite Uragus oura (Greek) tail, ago (Latin) set in motion, make sibiricus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 coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark These mobile birds live mainly in coniferous forests. Which, as I suppose, is what caused

🦉 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.

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 What about thrushes? Autumn is approaching, the time

The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) The life of wild squirrels that live in forests far from cities and villages is very different from those that live in city parks. No one brings

🦉 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 For

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed Very soon you will be able to hear the quiet, dry trills of these cute birds in the forests.

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This outwardly unremarkable bird arrives

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black The habitats of these birds are open or semi-open. For

🦉 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 birds are among

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal click to play video This wild relative of the familiar

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle Thanks to its completely original coloring, this bird cannot be confused with any other. They are

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard To be honest, I have never seen these birds fly in. The books say that they fly in as soon as the snow melts. However, I always meet these

🦉 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 lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller These cute little woodpeckers,

🦉 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 Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. These birds are real travelers, or to be more precise, nomads. They

🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain This species of wild sparrow lives on the outskirts of

🦉 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 This is

🦉 The common redpoll or mealy redpoll (Acanthis flammea) Acanthis in ancient Greek. mythology daughter of Autonous and sister Acanthus; when Acanthis sobbed over the murdered Acanthus, the gods turned