Birdwatching - 1957 🐦

🦉 Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)

• Acrocephalus Greek: acros upper, pointed, kephale head
• dumetorum lat .: dumetum thicket, thickets, dumus thorny bush

These birds arrive last, in late spring, when the trees are already blooming. They live in forests, mainly deciduous or mixed. But I often hear them in the summer right in the city courtyards, parks, and groves. Simply put, the bird inhabits the bushes, and it doesn’t matter where they are located.

And I really don’t envy the residents of those houses near which this bird settled. After all, males can sing even at night! And their songs consist of imitation of the voices of other birds, which are separated by their own crackling sounds.