ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • yesterdayBirdwatching - 3196🐦🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) These brightly colored birds attract attention in the spring, when, after winter migrations, they break up into small flocks andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoSMaP 243 - Female BirdsAs always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FEMALE BIRDS Chaffinch The females of these birds are very similar in appearanceratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3195🐦🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red I often hear the same question: "Where do bullfinches fly in the spring?" Well, toratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days agoBirdwatching - 3194🐦🦉 The Baikal bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula cineracea), also known as the grey bullfinch, grey-headed bullfinch or great bullfinch Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red cineracea lat.: cineris - ash, cinereus,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoBirdwatching - 3193🐦🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller This is one of the smallestratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3192🐦🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail We call this bird the "flaming tail" because of its bright red tail, which looks like a tongueratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoBirdwatching - 3191🐦🦉 The Eurasian penduline tit or European penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) Remiz (Polish) Remez, dates back to lat. remissus quiet, calm pendulinus pendulus (lat.) pendant (name - for a suspended nest)ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3190🐦🦉 The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Mergus merganser) > - Mergus (Greek) unidentified waterfowl mentioned in the texts of Pliny, Horace, and other ancient Roman authors > - merganserratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3189🐦🦉 The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) > - Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale It's not often I encounter these famous forest singers. These birds love dense thickets, like various bush-covered riverratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 days agoBirdwatching - 3188🐦🦉 The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) Tringa (Greek) waterbird the size of a thrush in the texts of Aristotle ochropus Greek: ōkhros buffy, pous leg This long-legged sandpiper prefers to live in swampsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 15 days agoBirdwatching - 3187🐦🦉 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 andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoSMaP 241 - Free Theme (Nightingales)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about Nightingales? There are 4 species of nightingales livingratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3186🐦🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to These beautifulratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3185🐦🦉 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) hypoleucaratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 3184🐦🦉 The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) flava flavus (lat.) yellow,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 22 days agoBirdwatching - 3183🐦🦉 The common grasshopper warbler or just grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) Locustella (Latin) diminutive of locusta grasshopper; cricket naevia naevius (Ixoreus) lat.: naevius spot, naevius spottedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3182🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This tiny, 9-gram bird lives primarily in coniferous forests, but can also be found in mixedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 24 days agoBirdwatching - 3181🐦🦉 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 I love going to theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 25 days agoSMaP 240 - Free Theme (Bullfinches)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is -FREE THEME How about fluffy bullfinches? Common Bullfinch These adorableratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 26 days agoBirdwatching - 3180🐦🦉 The common starling or European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Sturnus lat.: sturnus starling, sturninus speckled, spotted vulgaris (lat.) well-known, ordinary This bird is a real mystery to me. For some
