It's my entry for the #photofeed contest by @photofeed, for the wildlife theme .
🦉 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 color of the male's chest:
Olof Rudbeck junior, Swedish botanist and birdwatcher, mentor to Carl Linnaeus, having discovered the bluethroat in 1695 in Lapland, he gave it the name Avis Carolina in honor of the Swedish king Charles XI and the blue-yellow Swedish flag (in those days the yellow color on the flag was more reddish), and K. Linnaeus in 1758, when the absolute power of the monarchy in Sweden was no longer, considered the name svecica more correct than carolina (Jobling, 2010)
In order to observe and admire this bright and beautiful nightingale, spring is needed. As for the location, they are easiest to find near rivers or lakes, they like to spend time in bushes growing near water. With the advent of spring, I go to the neighboring region, where the steppe zone, where these nightingales appear much earlier than in my city. And in my city only a week later.
Initially, the male can only be heard, he sings songs by inserting into them the various voices of other birds he heard. Sometimes flies up over the bushes. But if you turn on the voice of the bluethroat on the speaker, then he will pull out of the bushes to look at a competitor and continue to sing.
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Nikon D5200 | Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD |