When we sat down to drink tea in the next shelter (we laid out cookies, nibbled chocolate, brewed a thermos), two cute birds came out of the forest to join our feast. They culturally expected a treat and, of course, were rewarded. The story could have ended here, but I wanted to know what kind of birds these were.
A search on Google using the uploaded image gave a 100% correct, but not accurate enough result - Google stated that the picture shows a “bird”. I had to look for a photo identification of birds and rummage through the subcategories of the order Passeriformes (obviously not a swan). Here, too, everything turned out to be difficult - the top sites for the query “bird identifier” were, to put it mildly, not very suitable for searching for an unfamiliar bird. I had to poke at all the names at random. So I found the correct answer - this bird is called Nucifraga caryocatactes.
Apparently, I didn’t want to harness myself to the backpack at all, since I didn’t stop there, but began to figure out the Latin name of the bird. Is it also about pine nuts or something completely different? It turned out that there is no proper Latin translator on the Internet. Google Translate did not produce any hypotheses, and other top online dictionaries were also helplessly silent. Only on the University of Notre Dame website, in the William Whitaker dictionary, I was able to find out that the roots "caryo" and "nuci" both mean nut, and "fraga" is, apparently, strawberry.
What does this mean? 1) Google is not yet omnipotent 2) Curiosity is a great power 3) There are cedars in the Carpathians (more precisely, cedar pine).
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