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 - BIRD AND FOOD The rubythroat caught some small caterpillar in

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail These beautiful birds arrive at the end of April or the beginning of May, depending on the weather. In different

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds live in open spaces, so you need to look for

🦉 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

🦉 The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) Ardea (lat.) heron cinerea lat.: cineris ash, cinereus, cineraceus ash gray I rarely meet these birds, and I have never been able to get close to them. As a rule, I see

🦉 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

🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler obsolete name - Locustella certhiola Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not

🦉 The ruff (Calidris pugnax) Calidris kalidris or skalidris (Greek) unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle pugnax Latin: pugna battle, struggle, pugnax warlike, pugnacious I have not met these sandpipers

🦉 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 famous forest

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large These are my favorite birds. Unfortunately, many people know nothing about them and therefore they are ordinary unremarkable birds for

🦉 The Baikal bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula cineracea), also known as the grey bullfinch, grey-headed bullfinch or great bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhos (Greek) red cineracea lat.: cineris ash, cinereus, cineraceus

🦉 The common kestrel Falco - phalcōn (Greek), falco (Latin) falcon; the word falco is derived from falx (sickle, scythe) and means "curved like a sickle", which is related to the shape of the

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red In olden times this bird was also called the "red sparrow",

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

🦉 The Oriental turtle dove or rufous turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) Streptopelia Greek: streptos necklace, collar, peleia turtle dove orientalis eastern This bird species was listed in the regional

🦉 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 redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) I have already written about these two charming creatures. I met them on my way

🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) curruca - is an unidentified bird name mentioned in poems by the ancient Roman poet Juvenal These birds are few in number in the forests of my city, unlike their

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. These yellow birds live mainly in coniferous forests, which are far

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These fluffy balls with a long tail live all year round in the forests. They live in