The wryneck was thought to build the nest, and hatch and feed the young of the cuckoo.
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The wryneck and the woodpecker may be mentioned; and a still better instance is afforded by the small, gem-like kingfisher
3
During the talk that followed I asked him if he knew the wryneck, and if it ever nested in his orchard.
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He, however, treated her as the harbinger bird, wryneck of the nightingale, sure that Aminta would keep her appointment unless an accident delayed.
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All at once he remembered that he knew, or had known formerly, the wryneck very well, but he had never learnt its name.
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I have lingered long over the wryneck, but have still a story to relate of this bird-nota fairy tale this time, but true.
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Another pair of photographs from the brothers' behind-the-scenes series features a further hide (it allowed the Keartons to see the truth about the wryneck's beak).
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Those wrynecks, by the way, are abundant but hard to see.
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The chief food of the wrynecks consists of ants, which they pick up with their delicately tapered tongues.