🦉 The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) 📚 Tringa tryngas (Greek) thrush-sized water bird in Aristotle's texts 📚 glareola lat.: glarea - pebbles, glareola reduce. by glarea I used to meet these long-legged

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) 📚 Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite 📚 erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red These birds have very pronounced sexual dimorphism. Males are bright

🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) 📚 Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch 📚 striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled This species of flycatcher is not common to me, compared to the

🦉 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 With

Another cool competition from @nelinoeva. You can find the rules and announcement here And this week's theme is - Free Theme. Well, if so, then I prepared a selection of wagtails. The citrine wagtail

🦉 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

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) 📚 Aegithalos (Greek): tit 📚 caudatus (lat.): tailed In general, it is wrong to attribute this cute charmer to Paridae family. Genetically,

🦉 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.)

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) 📚 Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors I very rarely see these birds in winter. Mostly I see their close

Very rarely in the forest outside the city I come across these furry animals. Most often, of course, they can be found in city parks, where they are tame and accustomed to people. And here in the forest

For a long time I did not participate in the @nelinoeva competition. Well, since this week's topic is free, I decided to show you the birds that I often meet on the river. The ruff (Calidris pugnax) These

🦉 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

🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) 📚 Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors. I rarely get close to this bird to get a close-up photo. But one

🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) 📚 Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller 📚 minor (Latin) - smaller This species of woodpecker

🦉 The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) 📚 Turdus (lat) - Thrush 📚 pilaris the etymology is mysterious, although it is now believed that pilaris in later Latin means simply thrush (Jobling, 2017). However,

🦉 The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) 📚 Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) elder of the muses, goddess of chants, muse of epic poetry This beautiful nightingale with a bright red spot comes across

🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) 📚 Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite 📚 erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red These beautiful birds that look like red sparrows are not rare,

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) 📚 Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red These beautiful birds lead a very secretive lifestyle, which is why almost all people do

🦉 The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) 📚 Tringa (Greek) waterbird the size of a thrush in the texts of Aristotle 📚 ochropus Greek: ōkhros buffy, pous leg Around the middle of July or the end of July,

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) 📚 Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting 📚 citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird I get the impression that I see the same bird year