PostsCommentsPayoutsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 days agoBirdwatching - 3317 🐦🦉 The Siberian blue robin (Larvivora cyane) Larvivora - Latin: larva caterpillar, vorare - to devour cyane - dark blue This blue nightingale is a rarity in my city. I've only encountered it twice. Andratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3316 🐦🦉 The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) Carduelis carduus (Latin) thistle These colorful birds are winter residents and can be spotted year-round if you're looking. Theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3315 🐦🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range I don't come across these guys very often due to theirratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3314 🐦🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large The most common and numerous forest birds, which, in addition to forests, also live in city parks, groves, and courtyards. They can beratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 16 days agoBirdwatching - 3313 🐦🦉 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 • 20 days agoBirdwatching - 3312 🐦🦉 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 • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3311 🐦🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish These birds live near bodies of water, rivers, and lakes. Their dull calls can alreadyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 27 days agoBirdwatching - 3310 🐦🦉 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 For me, the songsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3309 🐦🦉 The hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) Tetrastes Greek: tetraōn hunting bird, -astēs creator bonasia the etymology is unclear, one of the assumptions is "bonum" good, "assum" roastratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • last monthBirdwatching - 3308 🐦🦉 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 3307 🐦🦉 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 • last monthBirdwatching - 3306 🐦🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis) Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal communis (lat.) ordinary, common. Thisratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3305 🐦🦉 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 - 3304 🐦🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) Spinus spinos (Greek) unidentified bird mentioned Aristotle and other ancient Greek. authors These yellow birds are true travelers. As soon as their young grow up,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3303 🐦🦉 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 • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3302 🐦🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed From a distance, these charming birds resemble a fluffy white ball with a long tail stickingratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3301 🐦🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizableratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3300 🐦🦉 Siberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus (collybita) tristis) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer collybita collybista (lat.), kollybistēs, kollybos (Greek) money changer, small coinratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months agoBirdwatching - 3299🐦🦉 The willow tit (Poecile montanus) Poecile poikilis (Greek) an unidentified small bird mentioned in ancient texts montanus (lat .) : mōns, montis mountain, mountain range, montanus mountain These greyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 2 months 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 males
