ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 hours agoBirdwatching - 3298🐦🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail A beautiful bird, isn't it? Would you be surprised to learn that this brightly colored bird (only the malesratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoBirdwatching - 3297🐦🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red No, this isn't a sparrow. It's a young male rosefinch. While still young,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3296🐦🦉 The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) Turdus (lat) - Thrush pilaris the etymology is mysterious, although it is now believed that pilaris in later Latin means simply thrush (Jobling, 2017). However, sinceratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoBirdwatching - 3295🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark These small birds appear in the forests as soon as spring begins. Yes, they are winteringratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3294🐦🦉 The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) cinerea lat.: cineris ash, cinereus,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 3293🐦🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] This bird is one of the most coveted trophies for wildlife photographers. It's difficultratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 21 days agoBirdwatching - 3292🐦🦉 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 (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3291🐦🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat major (lat.) big The most common and widespread species of woodpecker, which can be found alwaysratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 26 days agoBirdwatching - 3290🐦🦉 The Icterine warbler (Hippolais icterina) Hippolais - (Greek) a small bird mentioned by Aristotle and others, later identified as the wheatear Oenanthe, because hypo under, laes stone; the name Hippolaisratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 28 days agoBirdwatching - 3289🐦🦉 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 These guys are knownratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3288🐦🦉 The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) Chloris khlōros (Greek) green; yellow These are very strange birds to me. They're "unsociable," even though they live inratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3287🐦🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large These guys are my favorite birds! I watch them all year round, both in the wild and in my yard. I'm truly amazed by their high level ofratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3286🐦🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name) alba (lat.) white We're all usedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3285🐦🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish These small sandpipers arrive in late April or early May, depending on the weather.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3284🐦🦉 The pine bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting leucocephalos Greek: leukos white, kephalē head I've only encountered this species of bunting twice. Both times, in theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3283🐦🦉 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 • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3282🐦🦉 The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) Falco phalcōn (Greek), falco (Lat.) falcon; the word falco is derived from falx (sickle, scythe) and means "curved in the form of a sickle", which is associatedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3281🐦🦉 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 (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3280🐦🦉 The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale This seemingly inconspicuous fellow has a magnificent voice, which sets him apart from other similar birds. I descended closerratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3279🐦🦉 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
