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Eurasian Wryneck

Photo: Happy The Monk Singh · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Birds

Eurasian Wryneck

Jynx torquilla

Observations in the area
1
Last sighting
18 November 2020
Category
Birds
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The species

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 are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and in southern Asia from Iran to the Indian Subcontinent, but some are resident in northwestern Africa. It is a bird of open countryside, woodland and orchards.

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