🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red We call these cute little plump birds something like "snower". Apparently this came

🦉 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,

🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler> Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not contain such a name; it was obviously

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating These scavengers are found everywhere in my city. At first they fly to the nearest forests, this happens in the first days

🦉 The European robin (Erithacus rubecula) Erithacus erithakos (Greek) unidentified small bird in the works of ancient authors; erythros (Greek, lat.) red rubecula ruber (lat.) red, reddish, rubeculus

🦉 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 long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These cutest birds are called "ladle" by us because of their external resemblance

🦉 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 Eurasian wigeon or European wigeon, also known as the widgeon or the wigeon (Mareca penelope) Mareca marreco (port) duck; Marica (Roman mythology) river nymph enelope Pēnělŏpē, in ancient Greek.

🦉 The song thrush (Turdus philomelos) Turdus (lat) - Thrush philomelos - Greek: phileo to love, melos song; philomela nightingale. According to ancient Greek mythology Philomela - the daughter of Pandion

🦉 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Cuculus (lat.) cuckoo canorus (lat.) melodic, musical click to play video These nest parasites appear in the forests and outskirts of my city around the beginning

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big Well, we are getting closer and closer to spring, and therefore to the mating season

🦉 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 These cute

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle Unfortunately, I don't often come across these birds, and I'm especially rarely able to photograph

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red This bird, which in the old days was called "red sparrow",

🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish This is strange. Look at the photo above. This place is very far from the city, it is

🦉 The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) Picoides picus (lat.) woodpecker, -oides similar tridactylus tridaktylos (Greek) three-toed It's been a long time since I've seen these woodpeckers.

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark There is a very interesting story connected with the name of this tit in my language. In

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range These birds appear in the forests of my city a little

🦉 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