Honestly, I'm not 100% sure if I identified the species of this bird correctly. But judging by the pattern on the wings, the colors of the head and the shapes, it is - 🦉 The European honey buzzard (Pernis

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These cute little cuties are very friendly and social. They scurry around the forest

🦉 The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) Ardea (lat.) heron cinerea lat.: cineris ash, cinereus, cineraceus ash gray I meet these birds very rarely, usually in spring by the river or in autumn, in the same places.

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black You can find it in open spaces like fields or meadows,

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big This species is often found in our forests at any time of the year; it is the most

🦉 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 In winter,

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush We call this bird "garden

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March This big woodpecker looks very funny. Completely black

🦉 The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius brandtii ) Garrulus lat.: garrire to chat, babble, chirp, garrulus talkative, chirping, noisy; ax prone to.. glandarius glandis, glans (lat.) acorn brandtii brandti,

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard In some countries, these predators are often called "mousers", and for good reason: after all, their main prey is indeed small rodents.

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is FREE THEME I decided to show and tell a little about the birds that are the

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large They are probably one of the most recognizable and beloved birds in our area. Their bright yellow belly with a black stripe and white

🦉 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.)