🦉 The common redpoll or mealy redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
📚 Acanthis in ancient Greek. mythology daughter of Autonous and sister Acanthus; when Acanthis sobbed over the murdered Acanthus, the gods turned her into a bird.
📚 flammea lat.: flamma flame, fire, fiery color flammeus
Northern relatives of goldfinches and siskins. Previously, they even belonged to the same genus (carduelis), but then they were separated into a separate genus.
They live in the north of Eurasia and North America, in Greenland. And only with the advent of late autumn, when becomes cold, they begin to roam south.
Flocks of these cute but stern birds sit on the tops of birch trees to eat birch catkins. Sometimes the flock makes raids on thickets of thistles or sagebrush.
Surprisingly, several times I saw that in their flock there were siskins in small quantities.
