ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 hours agoBirdwatching - 3221🐦🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal These birds arrive at the end of April, when theratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 3 days agoBirdwatching - 3220🐦🦉 The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea asiatica ) Sitta sittē (Greek) mentioned by Aristotle and other ancient Greek. by the authors of the bird, something similar to the woodpeckerratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 4 days agoBirdwatching - 3219🐦🦉 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 are amongratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 5 days agoBirdwatching - 3218🐦🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) Aegithalos (Greek): tit caudatus (lat.): tailed These small, charming birds with a long tail are called "ladles" because ofratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 6 days agoBirdwatching - 3217🐦🦉 The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird pratensis Latin: pratum meadow, pratensis meadowy This wagtail (and this is the familyratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 7 days agoBirdwatching - 3216🐦🦉 The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Mergus merganser) Mergus (Greek) unidentified waterfowl mentioned in the texts of Pliny, Horace, and other ancient Roman authors merganser Greek:ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 10 days agoBirdwatching - 3215🐦🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller I saw this female woodpeckerratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 11 days agoSMaP 247 - Free Theme (Paridae)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about Paridae family? In general, there are about 10 speciesratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 12 days agoBirdwatching - 3214🐦🦉 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 • 13 days agoBirdwatching - 3213🐦🦉 The Siberian blue robin (Larvivora cyane) Larvivora - Latin: larva caterpillar, vorare - to devour cyane - dark blue Siberian - yes, robin - no. We call this bird the "Blue Nightingale." Byratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 14 days agoBirdwatching - 3212🐦🦉 The great tit (Parus major) Parus (lat.) Tit major (lat.) large It's quite amusing to watch these little fellows scurry through the fallen dry leaves, turning over the leaves in search of food. Besidesratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 17 days agoBirdwatching - 3211🐦🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to We're usedratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 18 days agoBirdwatching - 3210🐦🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird These birds are generally sedentary and winter residents,ratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 19 days agoBirdwatching - 3209🐦🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back This woodpecker species is similar in appearanceratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 20 days agoSMaP 246 - Free Theme (Birds with food)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about birds with food? Bullfinch I saw this chubby, sweetratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 21 days agoBirdwatching - 3208🐦🦉 The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) Oriolus oryolus (lat.) oriole [Old French. oryol oriole, aureolus gold] This bird is one of the most coveted among wildlife photographers. It's very difficultratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 23 days agoBirdwatching - 3207🐦🦉 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 restlessratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 24 days agoBirdwatching - 3206🐦🦉 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 • 25 days agoSMaP 245 - Free Theme (Corvids)As always, I want to thank @nelinoeva for the competition. You can read the rules and announcement here - This week's topic is - FREE THEME How about corvids? Common Raven These majestic birds inhabitratel (77)memberin Feathered Friends • 26 days agoBirdwatching - 3205🐦🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish While strolling along the shore in May, you might stumble across this small sandpiper.
