Birdwatching - 3270🐦
🦉 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, since lat. "pilus" hair, pilare to remove hair, but pila ball, pilaris anything related to ball, and pilarius is a juggler (and at the same time, the Greek "trikhos" is hair, and "trikhas" is a thrush!), all this puzzling. Two assumptions arise. First: when the fieldfare in summer, how usually pulls earthworms out of the ground, this can be associated with hair removal (pilare). Second: when in autumn and winter the fieldberry picks rowan berries and throws them up, swallows, it may resemble a juggler (pilarius).
In theory, these thrushes were supposed to arrive this week, but the weather was against it, it got very cold, so these birds had to wait in warmer regions.
The problem is that with the arrival of spring, these birds switch to animal food, specifically their favorite food -earthworms. But the forest is still very snowy, and plant food such as rowan berries and viburnum berries has been eaten by other birds over the winter.
It's funny how their behavior changes in the spring. They're bold, able to walk on the ground and do their business just a meter away. But with the arrival of summer, they become very cautious and shy, flying away as soon as they hear a rustle.
|Camera|Lens|
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| Nikon D5200 | Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary