ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 hours agoBirdwatching - 3070 🐦🦉 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 the colorratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoBirdwatching - 3069 🐦🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard Every year a pair of these predators settles in a hard-to-reach forest near a meadow and a hill. And every July I go to visit them, by thatratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3068 🐦🦉 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 turnedratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days ago Birdwatching - 3067 🐦🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red If winter wanted to choose a feathered mascot, the bullfinch would be ideal. This plump beautyratel (76)in #photo • 5 days agoThe squirrel insulates its home 🐿️🐿️ The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), also called Eurasian red squirrel Honestly, I would probably even single out urban squirrels as a separate subspecies. They are not particularly burdened with anything,ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3066 🐦🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush This modest, sparrow-sized creatureratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3065 🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This little one is not called "little tit" for nothing - it really is hardly biggerratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoBirdwatching - 3064 🐦🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle If birds had carnivals, the goldfinch would definitely win the prize for best costume. Judge forratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3063 🐦🦉 The European robin (Erithacus rubecula) Erithacus erithakos (Greek) unidentified small bird in the works of ancient authors; erythros (Greek, lat.) red rubecula…ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3062 🐦🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed If birds were soft toys, this bird would be a favorite. tiny body (weighs about the sameratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3061 🐦🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large This bird is unmistakable: a bright yellow belly with a black "tie" that extends to the tail in males, while in females it seemsratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 12 days agoBirdwatching - 3060 🐦🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal At first glance, it is the most ordinary bird:ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3059 🐦🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) fringilla (lat.) - finch; fi nco (Old German), fi nc (Old English) coelebs coelebs (lat.) - single, idle, unmarried When in early spring,ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 days agoBirdwatching - 3058 🐦🦉 The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) curruca - is an unidentified bird name mentioned in poems by the ancient Roman poet Juvenal This modest bird is not numerous in my city, compared to other birdsratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 15 days agoBirdwatching - 3057 🐦🦉 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.ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoBirdwatching - 3056 🐦🦉 The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) Sitta sittē (Greek) mentioned by Aristotle and other ancient Greek. by the authors of the bird, something similar to the woodpecker europaea (lat.)ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3055 🐦🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back This woodpecker, although similar to its closestratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3054 🐦🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black In spring and summer, they can be found in meadows, forestratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 3053 🐦🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish This nimble bird is the embodiment of anxiety. At first glance, it is nondescript:ratel (76)memberin Feathered Friends • 20 days agoBirdwatching - 3052 🐦🦉 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) hypoleuca
