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šŸ¦‰ The bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

šŸ“š Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale
šŸ“š 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)

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I often come across a description of this bird on the net that it is supposedly mysterious and difficult to see, and that it does not allow a person to come close to it. It's not like that at all!
In mid-spring, around the end of April, you can already expect the arrival of these birds. Bright males at this time actively and defiantly sing, sometimes flying up and soaring in the air.
And if you lure them to the sound, they can generally jump out of the bushes and walk next to you nearby.

And this male in the photo, I didn't even have to do anything, he just wandered along the path and looked for insects, only occasionally glancing at me.

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