Birdwatching - 1937 🐦 (+video)

🦉 The Eurasian wryneck or northern wryneck (Jynx torquilla)

• Jynx iynx, iyngis (Greek, Lat.) wryneck ; Iynga in ancient Greek. mythology, a beautiful nymph, the daughter of the god of the forest Pan and the nymph Echo, who possessed the magic of a love spell, but for this Hera, the wife of Zeus, turned her into a nondescript wryneck.
• torquilla torquere (lat.) to twist, bend, turn (name - for the snake twisting of the neck and head in a hollow in danger)

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This unusual and interesting species of woodpecker arrives in early May, when there is no longer snow in the forest. Males look for territories and sing mating songs to attract females. For some reason, their voices remind me of the voices of birds of prey; there is something similar, for example, to the voice of the Hobby.

Despite the fact that this bird belongs to the species of woodpeckers, it is still very different from them. She does not peck the bark of trees in search of food or to hollow out a home. The bird occupies old abandoned woodpecker holes or other natural crevices in trees. Overall, it is just a typical insectivorous bird.