Eurasian Wryneck

Order - Piciformes 形目
Family - Picidae 啄木鸟科 (Woodpeckers)
Genus - Jynx 蚁鴷属

Eurasian Wryneck

Jynx torquilla

蚁鴷

    Size : 16–17 cm; c. 30–50 g

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Jynx torquilla torquilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
  – most of Eurasia except parts of S; winters in Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Is, Africa and S Asia.
• Jynx torquilla tschusii (O. Kleinschmidt, 1907)
  – Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and E Adriatic coast; winters in S Italy, and Africa.
• Jynx torquilla mauretanica (Rothschild, 1909)
  – NW Africa.
• Jynx torquilla himalayana (Vaurie, 1959)
  – NW Himalayas (N Pakistan E to Himachal Pradesh); winters to S, at lower altitudes.

Date : 03 January 2015
米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 03 January 2015
米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 03 January 2015
米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 03 January 2015
米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 03 January 2015
米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong