PostsCommentsPayoutsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 hours 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 • 6 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 • 8 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 • 10 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 • 13 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 • 15 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 • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 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 • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 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 • 21 days agoBirdwatching - 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 • 26 days agoBirdwatching - 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 • 29 days agoBirdwatching - 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 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) hypoleucaratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3278🐦🦉 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 • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3277🐦🦉 The rustic bunting (Emberiza rustica) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting rustica rusticus (lat.) rural, country Oh, this is quite a rare species, listed in the regional Red Book. It's surprisingratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3276🐦🦉 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 forest singersratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3275🐦🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating These are amazingly punctual birds! They arrive every year from April 2nd to 4th, regardless of the weather. While other