🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] These birds arrive in mid-May. At this time, the leaves on the trees are just beginning

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

🦉 The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) Anas (lat.) Duck platyrhynchos Greek: platus wide, rhynkhos beak We are all very familiar with this type of duck. They can be found everywhere, in forest

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed I very rarely meet these birds in the summer. Usually the easiest time to meet them is

🦉 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 black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating These birds of prey are easily identified by their V-shaped tail. They arrive early, in early April, when the snow has

🦉 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