ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 hours agoBirdwatching - 3142 🐦🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating It's so amazing, but these birds always arrive on schedule, on April 2 or 4, regardless of the weather. In these days ofratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • yesterdayBirdwatching - 3141 🐦🦉 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 days agoBirdwatching - 3140 🐦🦉 The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) Phylloscopus Greek: phyllon foliage, skopos seeker, observer trochilus trokhilos (Greek) is a small bird mentioned by Aristotle, later identified asratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3139 🐦🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush It was not for nothing that this birdratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoBirdwatching - 3138 🐦🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March This huge stylish woodpecker is about the size of a crow.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3137 🐦🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo) Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern hirundo (Latin) swallow A fish-eating bird from the gull family, much smaller than the common common gull. Its distinctive featureratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3136 🐦🦉 The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Saxicola (lat ): saxum rock, stone, -cola inhabitant maurus (lat.): Moorish, black These birds are easy to see when walking in spring or summerratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 8 days agoBirdwatching - 3135 🐦🦉 The common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Carpodacus Greek: karpos fruit, daknō to bite erythrinus erythros (Greek, lat.) red For a herbivorous bird, this species arrives very late, around mid-May,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 9 days agoBirdwatching - 3134 🐦🦉 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 • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3133 🐦🦉 The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) These yellow fellows live mainly in coniferous forests, but can also settle in mixed forests, where I actually took these photos.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 12 days agoBirdwatching - 3132 🐦🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range Everyone is familiar with the Chaffinch, and these birdsratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3131 🐦🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not contain such a name; it was obviouslyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 days agoBirdwatching - 3130 🐦🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater) Peri (Greek) very, hugely Parus (lat.) Tit ater (lat.) black, dark This wonderful little bird of the tit family is not often found in the forests of my city.ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 15 days agoBirdwatching - 3129 🐦🦉 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)in #photo • 16 days agoChipmunk 🐿️The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk These cute little animals are easiest to see in early spring, when the snow has not yet completely melted. At this time, they awakenratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3128 🐦🦉 The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) Phoenicurus Greek: dark red phoinix, oura tail These bright birds arrive in spring, around the end of April. The males sing actively, court the females,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3127 🐦🦉 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 • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 3126 🐦🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large Everyone knows this bird! Bright yellow belly, black "cap" and white cheeks. Even those who don't know much about birds willratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 20 days agoBirdwatching - 3125 🐦🦉 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 These fragileratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 21 days agoBirdwatching - 3124 🐦🦉 The redwing (Turdus iliacus) Turdus (Latin) thrush iliacus ilia (lat.) sides, iliacus with sides (i.e. with red sides) This species of thrush is migratory, and the most surprising thing is that it appears