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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review. This is a very easy book to read. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

10,000 Birds

While I would not want to encourage anyone to put birds in cages, it is interesting to read about the experience of somebody breeding Black-headed Sibias in captivity. If you do not want to be put in a cage, it presumably helps to be a bit aggressive. Elizabeth died four days after the birth of her eighth child, when she was 37. (I

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