🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back I see this species of woodpecker much less

🦉 The azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus) Cyanistes kyaneos (Greek), cyaneus (Latin) dark blue cyanus Greek: kyanos dark blue I always rejoice when I meet these cute beautiful birds. They are quite rare. This

Thank you dear @nelinoeva for the competition. The announcement and rules can be found here. This week's theme is again - FREE THEME I was recently impressed by the etymology of the song thrush, and thought

🦉 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 In the spring, when

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. I come across these yellow guys most often in the fall, when they fly

🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain These wild sparrows live in my city on the very outskirts.

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) I don’t often manage to photograph this species of thrushes. They are very shy,

We are all used to seeing red squirrels in summer and gray squirrels in winter. Depending on the time of year, they change their coat. But one day in August, in the summer, I met such a squirrel in the

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird For some reason, these birds are few in number in my city,

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These inhabitants of open spaces are easy to meet in early

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March This tough guy is hard to miss in the forests. He has a

🦉 The song thrush (Turdus philomelos) Turdus (lat) - Thrush philomelos - Greek: phileo to love, melos song; philomela nightingale. According to ancient Greek mythology Philomela - the daughter of Pandion

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large I have been studying these yellow-bellied guys for many years and I notice that they are very underestimated. Sometimes it seems to me

🦉 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 I have already told you more than once, in my favorite forest there live wild squirrels who are not used to seeing people, so they are afraid of them. I don’t know how many years they have been living

🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled I have no idea why we call this brown bird the “gray flycatcher.” It

🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] This beautiful bird is like a grail for me, like something elusive. The thing is

Thank you dear @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the announcement and rules here. This week's topic is Short-legged Birds. If with long-legged birds everything is quite simple, they are mostly

🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard click to play video There is one place in my favorite forest that I call the "territory of birds of prey". It is here that I meet

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed One day in the summer I was walking in some wilds of the forest near a tributary of a