Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

Query: Woodpecker

Result: 1285^th of 1460

Subject:	Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
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Description
English: « Yunx torquila » = Jynx torquilla (Eurasian wryneck)
Français: « Yunx torquila » = Jynx torquilla (Torcol fourmilier)
Date 1876
Source Onze vogels in huis en tuin http://archive.org/stream/onzevogelsinhuis03keul#page/n115/mode/2up
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jynx_torquilla_1876.jpg

The Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla) is a species of wryneck in the woodpecker family. This species mainly breeds in temperate regions of Europe and Asia. Most populations of Jynx torquilla are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and in southern Asia from Iran to the Indian Subcontinent, but some wrynecks are resident in northwestern Africa.

Woodpecker
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