13 December 2024
Yesterday I discovered European Wildlife by Lukáš Pich on YouTube and this beautiful video, Wild Czechia – My Best Wildlife Encounters of 2023, featured below. Filmed in the Czech Republic in 2023 the images are gorgeous, the action is fascinating and all is enhanced by the sound track.
For North Americans most of the birds, insects and animals in the video will be unfamiliar but we have a few in common. Watch for the leaping red fox, a family of ravens, barn swallows in flight, and a flock of great egrets taking off. There are also many species that resemble our own ants, staghorn beetles, dragonflies, hawks, owls, woodpeckers and songbirds. For instance, we don’t have great crested grebes in North America (photo at top) but it has traits similar to our horned and western grebes.
At 1:00 minute into the video a bird enters the frame and poses to sing. I guarantee that you will be able to identify this bird by its song (see *1 below).
Enjoy the video.
Divoké Cesko means “Wild Czechia” or “Wild Czech Republic” in the Czech language.
Background:
(*1) The bird is a Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
(2) Here is where Czechia is in Europe, circled in pink on the map below.
(3) Though I’ve never to Czechia the Czech Republic brings to mind old buildings and the capital city, Prague. I found beautiful photos of its wild places including the Javornik Mountains.
