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Kosice, Czech Republic

Hradec Králové okres, Hradec Kralove Region

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[Kosice flag] by Jarig Bakker, 3 May 2004
adopted 18 Mar 2003 See also:

Kosice municipality flag

Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí Čr (2003) - Kosice, Hradec Králové district, Hradec Králové region - adopted 18 Mar 2003 - the bird is a "kos" - a blackbird (turdus merula).
Jarig Bakker, 3 May 2004

The stylized image of the "kos" is very attractive. I guess the flag is canting.
What does the bird's Latin genus mean?
Lewis A. Nowitz, 2 May 2004

Turdus = a thrush
merula = a blackbird
Hence a black thrush.
Albert S. Kirsch, 3 May 2004

The correct spelling of the Latin name of the blackbird should be "Turdus merula" (Genus - species). The genus name was derived from the Latin name of the thrush, "turdus". The family "Turdidae" includes, inter alia, genus "Erithacus" ("E. rubra", robin), "Luscinia" ("L. megarhynchos", nightingale), "Phoenicurus" ("P. ochruros", black redstart; "P. phoenicurus", white redstart), "Saxicola" ("S. torquata", stonechat), "Oenanthe" ("O. oenanthe", wheatear), "Monticola" ("M. saxatilis", rocky blackbird; "M. solitarius", blue blackbird) and "Turdus" (thrushes and blackbirds).

Genus "Turdus" includes "T. merula" (black blackbird, "merula" being the Latin name of the bird, in French, "merle"), "T. torquatus" (plastron blackbird) and several species of thrus