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Ratel

@ratel

Wildlife photographer

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Ratel
@ratel Sep 3, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3314 🐦

🦉 The great tit (Parus major) > - Parus (lat.) Tit > - major (lat.) large The most common and numerous forest birds, which, in addition to forests, also live in city parks, groves, and courtya…

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@ratel Aug 31, 2026, 7:19 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3313 🐦

🦉 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 fore…

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@ratel Aug 27, 2026, 5:33 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3312 🐦

🦉 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…

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@ratel Aug 24, 2026, 7:14 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3311 🐦

🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) > - Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast > - hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish These birds live near bodies of water, rivers, and lakes. Their dull…

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@ratel Aug 20, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3310 🐦

🦉 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 F…

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@ratel Aug 17, 2026, 7:31 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3309 🐦

🦉 The hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) > - Tetrastes Greek: tetraōn hunting bird, -astēs creator > - bonasia the etymology is unclear, one of the assumptions is "bonum" good, "assum" roast (la…

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@ratel Aug 11, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3308 🐦

🦉 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, 20…

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@ratel Aug 7, 2026, 6:12 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3307 🐦

🦉 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. Ac…

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@ratel Aug 5, 2026, 7:28 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3306 🐦

🦉 The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat (Curruca communis) > - Curruca is an unidentified bird name mentioned in the poems of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal > - communis (lat.) ordinar…

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@ratel Jul 30, 2026, 5:30 AM UTC

Birdwatching - 3305 🐦

🦉 The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) > - Falco phalcōn (Greek), falco (Lat.) falcon; the word falco is derived from falx (sickle, scythe) and means "curved in the form of a sickle", which is ass…

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