Once a year I go to visit my relatives in the neighboring region. And once when I arrived, my brother told me that they had done something like a zoo in their city, where wild animals are kept, which are

🦉 The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) 📚 Picoides picus (lat.) woodpecker, -oides similar 📚 tridactylus tridaktylos (Greek) three-toed I meet almost all species of woodpeckers in

🦉 The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) 📚 Strix strigis (lat.) owl; strideo (lat.) to hiss, whistle 📚 uralensis Uralic These cute owls, also known as "long-tailed" owls, appear in the forests from

Another competition about feathered friends from @nelinoeva . You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is a free theme. And I decided to show you some orange birds. The common redstart

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) 📚 Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head 📚 dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This bird loves to sing. He loves

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) 📚 Peri (Greek) very, hugely; 📚 Parus (lat.) Tit 📚 ater (lat.) black, dark One of the smallest tits. Strange, but it is found much less frequently than the

🦉 The azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus) 📚 Cyanistes kyaneos (Greek), cyaneus (Latin) dark blue 📚 cyanus Greek: kyanos dark blue In my city, and in the region as a whole, this is a very rare species of tits.

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) 📚 Milvus (lat) - kite 📚 migrans (lat.) - migrating The arrival of these birds falls at the very beginning of April, approximately on the 2nd or 4th. But at this time

🦉 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

Thanks to @nelinoeva for the new contest. You can read the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - FOOD IN THE BEAK. The spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker, or simply nutcracker (Nucifraga

🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) 📚 Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant 📚 maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds are always easy to meet in the wild.

The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk or Asian chipmunk yawns awake These cute fluffy animals hibernate around mid-October (depending on the weather, it happens that in

🦉 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 I

🦉 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

🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) 📚 Turdus (Latin) thrush 📚 iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) Unlike the fieldfare thrush familiar to us, this species of thrush is migratory.

🦉 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) 📚

Weekly competition from @nelinoeva . You can find the announcement and rules here. This week's theme is - WATERFOWL The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) Of course. As without these ducks familiar

🦉 The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) 📚 Chloris khlōros (Greek) green; yellow This bird is also known as the "Forest Canary". And this is due to her voice. More

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) 📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat 📚 major (lat.) big This most numerous and widespread species of woodpeckers inhabits deciduous

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) 📚 Parus (lat.) Tit 📚 major (lat.) large As soon as winter ends, and it becomes at least a little bit warmer, and there is at least the slightest hint of spring, these birds