Winter birds

Parus major

Wintertime when much of the nature sleeps awaiting for the kevät, the wintering birds liven up the city life. Here are some of the most common of the smaller ones, many of them found in both Helsinki and Tallinn. Check this great link (sorry, the text is only in Finnish, but look at the great pictures)! Read also a huvitav article (in English) published by the Helsinki University, titled Birds thrive on winter feeding. If you spot a city sparrow looking for toit on a busy Helsinki metro laituri - or on a supermarket aisle -  perhaps it is just to remind us that we need to feed them through the harsh winter. :)

Special treat: direct stream of a webcamera provided by Estonian ornithologists & placed at a bird feeding site (toidumaja) in Otepää in southern Estonia (daytime viewing recommended). Enjoy!

Tits vs. Redpolls (in Finnish) - about the territorial defense of tits.

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Passer domesticus

Garrulus glandarius

Carduelis chloris

sanasto = sõnastik = vocabulary
etsiä ruokaa = toitu otsida = to look for food
kaupunkielämä = city life
kevät = kevad = spring
käytävä = aisle
laituri = platvorm = platform
lintujen talviruokinta = lindude talvine toitmine = winter bird feeding
mielenkiintoinen = huvitav = interesting
muistuttaa = meelde tuletada = to remind
närhi = pasknäär = (the Eurasian) jay (Garrulus glandarius)
ornitologia, lintutiede = ornitoloogia, linnuteadus = ornithology
punatulkku = leevike = bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
ruoka, ravinto = toit = food
sinitiainen = sinitihane = blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
talitiainen = rasvatihane  = great tit(mouse) (Parus major)
talvehtia = talvituda, ületalve pidada = to winter
tiainen = tihane = tit(mouse)
urpiainen = urvalind = Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)
varpunen = koduvarblane = house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
viherpeippo = rohevint = European Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)

Updated 6.2.2013