#0781 · 🐦 birds

Eurasian Wryneck

🇳🇱 Draaihals ·Jynx torquilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Happy The Monk Singh · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © mturkoglu · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Геннадий · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Яков Любченко · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Tarique Sani · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © vyatka · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Яков Любченко · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Cathy Pasterczyk · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 34iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,228iNaturalist observations
weight 37 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).