Very interesting reading and a good introduction to a favourite hobby. Birding and learning to recognize species, and songs is an enjoyable pastime. Our Estonian forefathers put much stock in the activities of birds, something that here in Canada we should also follow. Ornithology is just not "for the birds"

For anyone wishing to become acquainted with more Estonian birds, visit the Systematic list of Estonian birds at http://sunsite.ee/loomad/Linnu... This is in Estonian (with Latin names), but has active links which lead to pictures and in some cases, calls. Plus it’s worth clicking Loe täiendavat infot! (Read more!) at the bottom of the page.

The English version of the same list http://sunsite.ee/animals/Linn... unfortunately has very few active links (most of the individual bird pages have not yet been translated), so if you don’t speak the language you have to compare the two.

For a broader Euro-perspective, one option is this online guide to British / Irish birds
http://www.birdguides.com/html... This particular page has drop-down lists of families and species and you can easily see a bird's European distribution.

NB > be wary of possible name variations between British and North American names (thank goodness for Latin!). In addition to a chickadee being a tit, I just realised that over here a LOON is called a DIVER and hence is listed as such on the Estonian-English page as well.