🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) I don't see these birds very often, even though they are numerous. In autumn, they fly around the forests in noisy flocks. They

🦉 The sand martin (Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin Riparia ripa (lat.) river bank, riparius coastal These little swallows

🦉 The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) Calliope - the eldest of the muses, the goddess of chants, the muse of epic poetry This nightingale is a real mystery to

🦉 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 common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow If seagulls are the street hooligans of the bird world, then common terns are their aristocratic cousins.

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

🦉 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 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 common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard Every year a pair of these predators settles in a hard-to-reach forest near a meadow and a hill. And every July I go to visit them, by that

🦉 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 Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red If winter wanted to choose a feathered mascot, the bullfinch would be ideal. This plump beauty

🐿️ The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), also called Eurasian red squirrel Honestly, I would probably even single out urban squirrels as a separate subspecies. They are not particularly burdened with anything,

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This modest, sparrow-sized creature

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This little one is not called "little tit" for nothing - it really is hardly bigger

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle If birds had carnivals, the goldfinch would definitely win the prize for best costume. Judge for

🦉 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 long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed If birds were soft toys, this bird would be a favorite. tiny body (weighs about the same

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large This bird is unmistakable: a bright yellow belly with a black "tie" that extends to the tail in males, while in females it seems

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal At first glance, it is the most ordinary bird:

🦉 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 When in early spring,