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 🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

🦉 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

As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - BIRDS AND FOOD Waxwing In autumn and winter, these beautiful birds feed

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

🦉 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 We have

🦉 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 coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This small titmice lives primarily in coniferous forests. These forests are very far from

🦉 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

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 I decided to make a selection of birds that I met on the river

🦉 The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and

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 red birds? Bullfinch Of course, the first thing that

🦉 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

It's not easy to spot a chipmunk in the summer. I often hear them when I'm walking along a path; they make a characteristic sound, clearly signaling the approach of danger - me. But the animals themselves

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range I don't often encounter these birds in the forests near

🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain This species of wild sparrow isn't often seen in the courtyards

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. The Latin name spinus (from spin meaning to rotate) highlights this

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This seemingly inconspicuous bird lives

🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail We call this bird the "bald burning tail," or the "garden burning tail." It got its name

It's amazing how, in 9 years, squirrels migrated 10 km from a remote place deep in the forest. Previously, they always lived in one place where coniferous trees grow, and gradually, year after year, they