🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large One of the most recognizable birds in our area, these tits can be found almost everywhere all year round: from dense forests to city parks

🦉 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 common gull or sea mew (Larus canus) Larus (lat.) seagull; sea ​​bird canus (lat.) gray This seagull is hardly remarkable, grey-white plumage, no bright details. But its omnipresence compensates

🦉 The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) Mergus (Greek) unidentified waterfowl mentioned in the texts of Pliny, Horace, and other ancient Roman authors merganser

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal This small, inconspicuous singer is a master of

🦉 The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker Picus (lat.) woodpecker; in Romanesque mythology, Peak, or Picus, the Roman god of forests and the king of Latium,

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These bright birds are few in number in my city, but they

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big If you hear a sharp "trrrrr-trrrrr!" in the forest, as if someone had

🦉 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.)

🦉 Siberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus (collybita) tristis) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer ollybita collybista (lat.), kollybistēs, kollybos (Greek) money changer, small coin

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating Despite the fact that this lazy predator prefers to feed on carrion and scraps of food from garbage cans, it is still able

🦉 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 among

🦉 The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk These furry little animals live in any forest in my city. The easiest way to meet them is in an old cemetery, where they collect

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red This bird is one of the last to appear, when the trees are already generously

🦉 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