Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

Query: Jynx torquilla

Result: 18^th of 59

Subject:	Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
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Yunx torquilla - 1800-1812 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ18800349.jpg

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Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

Description
Yunx torquilla
Date 1800-1812
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Susemihl, Teutsche Ornithologie
Old Latin name Yunx torquilla
New Latin name Jynx torquilla
Common name Nederlands: Draaihals
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yunx_torquilla_-_1800-1812_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18800349.tif

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.

Jynx torquilla
18/59

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