Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1494 🐦

🦉 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 "wren", but in Aldrovandus (1599) it is "a kinglet without a tuft"; trokhalos, trokhiscus (Greek) round, oval, curved, spherical; trochilus (lat.) semicircular, curved

This small outwardly unremarkable bird arrives in early May or late April, depending on weather conditions. Males begin to search for and occupy territories, after which they mark their boundaries with their songs.

Their songs are very pleasant to the ear, a gentle whistle, somewhat reminiscent of the songs of a chaffinch.

The bird is not very afraid of people, so it is not difficult to get close to the singing male to admire him. And in summer, these birds can most often be found on the lower tier of the forest, in the bushes.