🦉 The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
📚 Muscicapa lat .: musca fly, capere to catch
📚 striata (lat.) streaky, striped, speckled
It is strange, but we call this bird "gray flycatcher". But she's brown!
The bird is quite inconspicuous, and her characteristic feature is that, sitting on a branch, she holds her body almost vertically, like a column.
This flycatcher is a typical inhabitant of light tall pine forests. However, every year I meet a couple of these birds in a mixed forest, in the area where tall pines grow, of which there are very few.
She feeds primarily on insects, which she traps, sitting on a branch, and catches on the fly. Less often pecks up small insects and spiders directly from tree branches. Thus, we can conclude that the life of this flycatcher, namely hunting and searching for food, nesting, is closely related to the crowns of trees.