🦉 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 birds, along with white wagtails and kites, are among the first to arrive in Siberia after wintering.
Note the scientific name. Even if Carl Linnaeus lived in Siberia, he would still call these finches unmarried.
Because the males always arrive first. They occupy territories and protect them with the help of songs, thereby letting others know that this is their territory. And then, after a few days or even a week, the females arrive.
And as in most cases, females are not brightly colored, and outwardly even look like ordinary sparrows.
In that harsh cold time when these birds arrive, there is still snow. Therefore, you can often see how birds jump on the snow and thawed earth in search of food, and there are various seeds that have been hidden under the snow all winter.
