GThang's Guide to Woodpeckers of the World
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Estate 2021
Foto scattata da capanno privato.
Summer 2021
Photo taken from a private shed.
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(Jynx torquilla) This wryneck was hunkering down low after spotting something high up in the air. It was a raptor but I couldn't tell what it was from such a distance but I'm sure he could!
(Jynx torquilla) Another shot of this little beauty showing the superb colouring and patterns in his feathers.
(Jynx torquilla - Eurasian Wryneck)
Taille : 17 cm (celle d'un moineau)
Envergure : 25 à 27 cm.
Poids : 30 à 45 g
Longévité 10 ans
Le torcol doit son nom à la curieuse façon qu'il a de tordre le cou et tourner la tête dans tous les sens, se nourrit surtout de fourmis. Son bec cache une langue rosâtre longue de plusieurs centimètres, qui reste enroulée quand il ne se nourrit pas. Cette langue est collante. Il l'enfonce dans le sol sableux et récupère ainsi des fourmis, son mets préféré. Il peut aussi déloger des insectes en sondant les crevasses de l'écorce, ou les fissures entre les pierres des murs et des édifices.Il niche depuis l'Europe et l'Afrique du Nord jusqu'au Japon. Ses populations européennes migrent en Afrique tropicale,/
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Size: 17 cm (that of a sparrow)
Wingspan: 25 to 27 cm.
Weight: 30 to 45g
Longevity 10 years
The wryneck owes its name to the curious way it has of twisting its neck and turning its head in all directions, feeds mainly on ants. Its beak hides a pinkish tongue several centimeters long, which remains rolled up when it is not feeding. This tongue is sticky. He pushes it into the sandy soil and thus collects ants, his favorite food. It can also dislodge insects by probing the crevices of the bark, or the cracks between the stones of walls and buildings. It nests from Europe and North Africa to Japan. Its European populations migrate to tropical Africa,
Ma meilleure photo du jour, my best photo of the day
20/04/2023
(Jynx torquilla) Wrynecks are small woodpeckers about the size of a sparrow. They feed almost exclusively on ants and unlike other woodpeckers, are seen mainly on the ground, and do not often climb up vertical trunks or branches. They are seen in relatively small numbers in the UK and there are about 200 or 300 records a year.
Estate 2022
Foto scattata da capanno privato.
Summer 2022
Photo taken from a private shed.
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Da vedere in Alta Risoluzione - To see in High Resolution
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Dalla mia vecchia Fiat Panda a cui avevo preventivamente smontato il sedile posto passeggero per montarci un cavalletto e avevo coperto il finestrino con un telo mimetico. Abruzzo - PNGSL
From my old Fiat Panda to which I had previously removed the passenger seat to mount a stand and I had covered the window with a camouflage cloth. Abruzzo - Gran Sasso Laga National Park
Wendehals / Eurasian Wryneck / Torcecuello euroasiático / Torcol fourmilier /
Jynx torquilla
A rare guest in my area - I had the pleasure of observing it near my home two years ago.
Ein seltener Gast in meiner Gegend - ich hatte vor zwei Jahren das Vergnügen, ihn in der Nähe meines Wohnortes zu beobachten.
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
BIRD GUIDES NOTEABLE PHOTO 28th Aug - 3rd Sep 2019
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
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Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Wells, Norfolk
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Ja estan aquí, podem escoltar el seu Ki ki ki al fons de la vegetació....
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Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
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Etonnante rencontre ce matin avec le Torcol Fourmilier que j'ai surpris dans son chant nuptial ! A son cri aigu repondait celui de la femelle à la tonalité plus basse et au débit plus lent.... Une première pour moi qui ne l'avais jamais entendu chanté, ni jamais vu dans cette posture et tant à découvert...
Collina Reggiana - Primavera 2017
Scatto effettuato da capanno privato.
Collina Reggiana - Spring 2017
Shot taken from a private shed.
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( Jynx torquilla ) genre d'oiseau de la famille des picidés, à cou flexible. Les pics appartiennent à la famille des torcols . Le torcol
n'est pas rare, mais il vit très caché et passe inaperçu de ceux qui ne le cherche pas. Ce pic est très particulier, à cause de son allure et son comportement entièrement migrateur. Il avance, furtif, dans sa robe d'écailles, sondant les alentour en quête de fourmis. Son plumage cryptique au milieu des broussailles le rend presque invisible aux yeux des ennemis
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Wryneck - Jynx Torquilla
Ogmore
The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers. Jynx is from the Ancient Greek iunx, the Eurasian wryneck.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey are ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The adult moults rapidly between July and September, although some moult continues in its winter quarters. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display.
Population:
UK passage:
Approx: 280 birds
Vorkommen:Europa, Nordwest-Afrika, große Teile Asiens; im Winter auch Südasien und Afrika
Lebensraum:Buschland, Parks, Streuobstwiesen, große Gärten, lichte Birken-, Kiefern- und Lärchenwälder, auch Auwälder
Gesamtlänge:16 - 18 cm
Gewicht:30 - 50 g
Nahrung:Insekten (bevorzugt Ameisen)
Gefährdungsstatus:LC (nicht gefährdet)