🦉 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 sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk Accipiter accipere (lat.) to grab nisus according to ancient Greek mythology Nisus (or Nisus), king of Megara, and

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird This is a small bright spot in the monotonous spring

🦉 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 This graceful

🦉 The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) Strix strigis (lat.) owl; strideo (lat.) to hiss, whistle uralensis Uralic This beautiful owl is called the long-tailed owl. All because of its long, wedge-shaped tail,

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red If in winter you come across a group of birds that look like ripe cherries in the snow, that's

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) This thrush is also called "white-browed", and it got this name for a

🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified as

🦉 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 This little

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail This bird is smart, neat, with a bright orange-red tail, which it constantly twitches, making it seem like

🦉 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. Grey

🦉 The spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker, or just nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos) Nucifraga Latin: nux - walnut, frangere - to smash, crush caryocatactes Greek: karyon - walnut,

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed This small, cute bird stands out with its unusually long tail for its modest size. The

🦉 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,

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard The buzzard is a master of patient waiting. Unlike the swift falcons, it prefers to sit for hours on a branch or roadside post, carefully

🦉 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 birds

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

🦉 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 Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk I met this furry friend at an old cemetery on the way to the forest. In this place you can also meet different birds and small animals.

🦉 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 birds are true