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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)

This bird from the woodpecker family, unlike its relatives, is migratory and flies back at the end of April, when the insects it feeds on have already appeared.

I usually meet them in mixed forests and in an old cemetery, where there are old birdhouses in which she sometimes nests (if no one occupies it before her).