Tag: animals
Common pika (Certhia familiaris): what does it look like?
Despite their abundance and impressive range, spotting the common pika can be tricky. This bird is small in size and from afar can easily pass for an ordinary sparrow. Certhia familiaris exudes a slightly curved...
Spotted big woodpecker and small woodpecker: how do they look and how do they differ?
The spotted woodpecker is one of the most numerous representatives of the woodpecker family. In Belarus, it is quite easy to find both the Great Spotted Woodpecker and the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (these birds are found in all regions of the country). They differ not only...
What does the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) look like?
This beautiful bird from the tit family is easy to identify by its unusual "hat" of azure color with a blue tint. The abdomen and lower body are yellow, like those of the older brother, the great tit. The muzzle has white...
What does fieldfare thrush (Turdus pilaris) look like?
If you saw a medium-sized bird (18-25 centimeters) with remarkable black spots on the abdomen, perched on berry trees, then there is some probability that this is a fieldfare thrush (Turdus pilaris). In Belarus, the bird is considered migratory, but it can ...
Tarpan horses are unusual inhabitants of the Nalibokskaya Pushcha
Nalibokskaya Pushcha is a huge forest located near the center of Belarus. The places here are truly beautiful and unique, besides, if you try a little, you can see the wild inhabitants of the forests here. Among which are...
Birds of 2023-2024-2025 announced immediately in Belarus
This honorary title among birds was given to species voted for by members of a public organization (APB). For the first time, the APB decided to announce the birds of the next three years at once. Voting for the bird of the year took place at the APB online convention on February 5, 2022...
How many swans and ducks winter in the country? Let's find out together!
Help conservationists and scientists to count swans and ducks in the winter! Every year in the middle of winter, the APB public organization, together with ornithologists from the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, conducts counts of waterfowl to find out how many and...
How many birds come to the feeders? Let's count the whole country!
Have you hung out the feeder yet? If not yet, then it's time to take part in the public monitoring "Ptushki la karmushki", which is annually conducted by a public organization (APB). Such feeder counts are carried out in many countries. The more people who participate...
Swans stopped wintering: anomaly or norm?
Uzіmka ў hramadskaya arganіzacyyu (APB) is often called by people in the hell and that lady temay: swans are not zlyatsely ў cut out. Yana is turbulent, that the birds perish in the frost, and try, as if they were dapamagchy. The one that some swans catch...
Belarus has annihilated the bird of 2022 - eight 10 facts right
For the bird of the coming year, the palessy Palessya was chosen, the palyashushka - the white tit (Russian - white tit) - a slow jumping song bird, which we live only on Palessi. Menavita for my candidature pragalasavali syabry hramadskaya arganizatsyi...