Waxwings Winter Feast on Rowan in Nizhny Novgorod

A small winter corner in the center of Nizhny Novgorod came alive with cheerful chirping. Bright plumaged waxwings flocked to the juicy clusters of rowan berries, hosting a true feast on the branches. NN.RU photographer Natalia Burukhina captured how the birds, despite the frost, deftly peck at the berries, chat with each other, and turn the modest rowan trees into living pictures of winter nature.

Several weeks earlier, a photojournalist for NN.RU captured on camera birds rare for our region — bullfinches. At that moment, they were enjoying rowan berries in the Sovetsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. What kind of birds these are — we tell in the article.

Earlier, a Nizhny Novgorod resident captured on camera kingfishers that stayed for the winter in our region. Most species of these birds inhabit tropical forests in Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America. The most common is considered the common, or blue kingfisher. It is found in the central zone and south of Russia. The bird, slightly larger than a sparrow — with bright plumage and a long beak — resembles a hummingbird. In our region, kingfishers are rarely observed: they are included in the Red Book of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.