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Query: birds of asiaResult: 725th of 1792
Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
Subject: Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
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Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)


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English: European wryneck Jynx torquilla. This image comes from the book Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (Natural history of the birds of central Europe), Band IV, Tafel 36 - Gera, 1901
Date 1901 (published in the mentioned book)
Source http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/2180_34.htm
Author Johann Friedrich Naumann (digitized by Peter v. Sengbusch)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jynx_torquilla.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.

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Scientific Name: Jynx torquilla Linnaeus, 1758
Common Names: Eurasian Wryneck, Wryneck, European Wryneck, Northern Wryneck
French: Torcol fourmilier German: Wendehals Spanish: Torcecuello euroasiático
Taxonomy: Jynx Torquilla Linnaeus, 1758, Europe = Sweden.

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