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🦉 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)

In books and encyclopedias it is written that these birds avoid solid forests, however, sometimes I met them in such places, but usually in the spring during the mating season. Basically, in my city these birds are in the old cemetery where birches grow, and in the forest near the river bank. But I took these pictures on the opposite bank of the river, where there are meadows.

In these meadows the bird was obviously looking for food, because this bird is a cavity nester and settles in old abandoned hollows of woodpeckers and other birds.
Although this species is very different from all other woodpecker species, some features indicate that it belongs to this family. These include the structure of the toes, the recognizable features of the face, and a voice similar to that of the lesser woodpecker.