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n. - Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck; An unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted.

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  • The adjective 'wryneck'd' refers, not to the instrument itself, which was straight, but to the player, whose head has to be slightly twisted round to get at the mouthpiece.
  • The wryneck was thought to build the nest, and hatch and feed the young of the cuckoo.
  • The arrangement of the toes is such as has been described in all birds with the exception of the wryneck.
  • It shares this quality with only two other birds, I think: the wryneck, an aberrant woodpecker, and another night bird, the nightjar.
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