(1) If not treated, wryneck may lead to permanent facial deformity or unevenness and to restricted head movement.(2) Torticollis, also known as wryneck , is a twisting of the neck that causes the head to rotate and tilt at an odd angle.(3) Congenital muscular torticollis, also called wryneck , is usually discovered in the first 6 to 8 weeks of life.(4) On the same trip to Spain we also caught up with two other birds I most desperately wanted to see: the ring ouzel, another thrush with a restricted range, and the wryneck , a strange-looking and behaving woodpecker.(5) Some, such as the wryneck , ceased to breed in East Anglia; others, notably the stonechat, all but vanished.(6) There are two additional subfamilies of the Picidae, Picumninae, which is the sister group of the true woodpeckers, and Jynginae ( wrynecks ), which is sister to the Picinae-Picumninae clade.(7) On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks , a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.(8) There are many species of woodpeckers, but only two wrynecks , worldwide, but only three woodpeckers and one wryneck (a rare migrant) in the UK.(9) Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable.
