🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled This is a bird that is hard to miss and pass by. It is not bright, not

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - SMALL BIRDS Long-tailed tit Yes, on the one hand, thanks to its very long

🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle I almost always meet these birds in flocks, except in spring when they split into pairs. But I

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These birds are essentially wintering birds, but in my

🦉 The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) Chloris khlōros (Greek) green; yellow These birds are sedentary, wintering, but from my region they fly away for the winter to other

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

🦉 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 great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big The most recognizable and most numerous species of woodpeckers. You can meet it

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These lovely birds were called differently in the old days, for example: taily, apolly,

🦉 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 This

🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary These birds have a very interesting coloring,

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard These birds of prey are not numerous in the forests of my city, but there is one place where I meet them every year. It is a small area of

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating It's so amazing, but these birds always arrive on schedule, on April 2 or 4, regardless of the weather. In these days of

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

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush It was not for nothing that this bird

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March This huge stylish woodpecker is about the size of a crow.

🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow A fish-eating bird from the gull family, much smaller than the common common gull. Its distinctive feature

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds are easy to see when walking in spring or summer

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red For a herbivorous bird, this species arrives very late, around mid-May,