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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)

These colorful nightingales inhabit areas with dense vegetation and bushes. I've encountered them on riverbanks, in meadows, and in the steppes. They're easy to spot in the spring. The male sings actively at this time, nestled in the thicket.

Sometimes, while singing, he flies up above the spot where he was perched and then descends.
As for his songs, they're a veritable collection of the sounds of other birds he's ever heard, all mixed together.