🦉 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 color of the male's chest:
Olof Rudbeck junior, Swedish botanist and birdwatcher, mentor to Carl Linnaeus, having discovered the bluethroat in 1695 in Lapland, he gave it the name Avis Carolina in honor of the Swedish king Charles XI and the blue-yellow Swedish flag (in those days the yellow color on the flag was more reddish), and K. Linnaeus in 1758, when the absolute power of the monarchy in Sweden was no longer, considered the name svecica more correct than carolina (Jobling, 2010)
This gentleman was sitting deep in the bushes near the coast and singing a song, which is what led me to him. However, sitting so deep in the bushes, it was impossible to even see him, let alone photograph him, even though it was early May and the greenery was just starting to grow, the numerous branches of the bushes were in the way.
And then I turned on the voices of these birds on my phone, and the sound coming from the bluetooth speaker attracted this male. He quickly jumped out of the bushes and began to sing even louder, showing that this was his territory.
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Nikon D5200 | Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD |
