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🦉 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)

Looking at this nightingale's plumage as a whole, it blends in very well with the background of spring bushes, and is only distinguished by the bright spots on the throat (in males). However, it is difficult to miss, as the bird is very active and mobile.

It is especially funny to watch how a male jumps out from the thicket of bushes if he hears the voices of a competitor and begins to sing even more intensely.