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I was recently impressed by the etymology of the song thrush, and thought of publishing birds whose names are associated with ancient myths.
The common redpoll or mealy redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
- Acanthis in ancient Greek. mythology daughter of Autonous and sister Acanthus; when Acanthis sobbed over the murdered Acanthus, the gods turned her into a bird.
- flammea lat.: flamma flame, fire, fiery color flammeus
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 thalassa. According to ancient Greek mythology Alcyone (Alcyone), the daughter of the wind god Eol, was the wife of Keix, who drowned due to the wrath of the gods. Alcyone, out of grief, threw herself into the sea, and also died. The gods had mercy and turned the spouses into kingfishers. Looking for her husband, Alcyone calls all the time “Keix! Keix!" and dives, trying to find him in the sea. Alcyone days - two weeks of calm weather around the day winter solstice. During these days, Eol pacified the winds so that Alcyone, in the form of a kingfisher, could hatch chicks in her nest floating on the waves.
- atthis (ancient Greek mythology) Attis, a divine youth of extraordinary beauty
The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis)
- Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird
- Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal
The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus)
- Picus (lat.) woodpecker; in Romanesque mythology, Peak, or Picus, the Roman god of forests and the king of Latium, distinguished by male beauty, rejected the love claims of the sorceress Circe (Kirka), after which the offended Kirka turned him into a woodpecker
- canus (lat.) gray
The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope)
- Calliope (ancient Greek mythology) Calliope - the eldest of the muses, the goddess of chants, the muse of epic poetry
The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
- Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and the nymph Echo, who possessed the magic of a love spell, but for this Hera, the wife of Zeus, turned her into a nondescript wryneck.
- torquilla torquere (lat.) to twist, bend, turn (name - for the snake twisting of the neck and head in a hollow in danger)
The Eurasian wigeon, also known as widgeon (Mareca penelope)
- Mareca Marica (Roman mythology) river nymph
- penelope according to ancient Greek mythology wife of Odysseus, mother of Telemachus
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| Nikon D5200 | Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD |