Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1307 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)

📚 Falco (lat.) falcon; the word falco is derived from falx (sickle, scythe) and means "curved in the form of a sickle", which is associated with the shape of a falcon's wing in flight or his powerful sickle-shaped claws
📚 subbuteo lat.: sub - below, under, close to.., partly, buteo - buzzard

A small graceful falcon with long wings and tail.
That day I saw some young falcons sitting on top of a tree. Two sat next to each other, and one on another tree.

Together they waited for the parent with food. Namely, the parent caught dragonflies for them. I think while they are young, they feed on insects, but then, when they become older, they will eat small birds as they should.