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 How about Nightingales? There are 4 species of nightingales living

🦉 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 beautiful

🦉 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 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 grasshopper warbler or just grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) Locustella (Latin) diminutive of locusta grasshopper; cricket naevia naevius (Ixoreus) lat.: naevius spot, naevius spotted

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This tiny, 9-gram bird lives primarily in coniferous forests, but can also be found in mixed

🦉 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 I love going to the

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 How about fluffy bullfinches? Common Bullfinch These adorable

🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary This bird is a real mystery to me. For some

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big This most common woodpecker species can be found in any forest, at any time of year.

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds can be found in open spaces such as fields,

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These birds arrive early, in late March, when there's

🦉 The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting schoeniclus skhoinos (Greek) reed; reeds; -cola (lat.) inhabitant; skhoiniklos (Greek) a small coastal bird mentioned

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 How about woodpeckers? Three-toed Woodpecker I rarely encounter

🦉 The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Anthus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird hodgsoni Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894) diplomat, orientalist, naturalist,

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating Kites can soar for long periods without flapping their wings, which suits their nature perfectly: they're slow and don't

🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow These graceful, sharp-bodied birds emerge in early to mid-May. They nest on sandy and pebble spits and

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range This bird is slightly larger than its closest relative,

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is -FLOCK Redshank I encountered a flock of these Pinocchios on a lake at the

🦉 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