The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
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). They are ant specialists. They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals.
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