Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1473 🐦

🦉 The common rosefinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

📚 Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red

These very cautious and secretive birds are very rare and difficult to see and hear in the forest in summer. However, around the end of autumn, or even in the middle, depending on the weather, they slowly begin to fly from the forests to the outskirts of the city, and then completely to city groves, parks, and courtyards.

At this time, they feed on rowan seeds. They bite into the berry and take out a seed from it, from which later lumps can be observed under the tree. If the weather is very cold, then they eat the seeds of the ash-leaved maple, because they contain a lot of fat. And of course they like to visit the feeders in the parks, feast on sunflower seeds.