🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizable

🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) alba (lat.) white It is difficult

🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled Despite the name and distinctive features of the birds of this family,

🦉 The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) Tringa tryngas (Greek) thrush-sized water bird in Aristotle's texts glareola lat.: glarea - pebbles, glareola reduce. by glarea There is a coastal area near the

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) We call this type of thrush the white-browed one. I think looking at the photo

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

🦉 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 tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal This forest wagtail is often found in forests,

🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow These graceful birds with sharp shapes live on a large river flowing along my city and not only. In mid-May

🦉 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 brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range I meet these birds in the forests of my city exclusively

In the neighboring region, in the steppe zone, I constantly see different types of seagulls. Namely, black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), and a special local species - Baraba steppe gulls (Larus

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird In the forest that is located near the river bank there

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) I don't come across these yellow birds very often. They are usually easiest to spot in the spring, during their mating season. By this time, large flocks break up,

🦉 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. Unlike

🦉 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 It

🦉 The Oriental turtle dove or rufous turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) Streptopelia Greek: streptos necklace, collar, peleia turtle dove orientalis eastern I am haunted by some strange coincidence.

🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] Any birdwatcher and photo hunter understands how difficult it is not only to take