🦉 The willow tit (Poecile montanus) Poecile poikilis (Greek) an unidentified small bird mentioned in ancient texts montanus (lat .) : mōns, montis mountain, mountain range, montanus mountain A dexterous,

🦉 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. These

🦉 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 great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large With the arrival of spring, most of these birds fly back to the forests, only a few remain to continue living in the city. In the forests,

🦉 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 This

🦉 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 - 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