Eurasian Wryneck

The Eurasian wryneck, or northern wryneck, is a woodpecker-family bird of temperate Europe and Asia, 16–18cm long, with a bill shorter and less dagger-like than other woodpeckers'. The upperparts are barred and mottled in pale brown with rufous and blackish bars and wider black streaks, and the underparts are cream speckled and spotted with brown (Wikipedia, general species account).

Most populations are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and southern Asia. One subspecies breeds in eastern Siberia and north-eastern and central China. The chief prey is ants and other insects found in decaying wood or on the ground. Eggs are white, in a clutch of seven to ten, and when disturbed at the nest it uses snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display (Wikipedia, general species account).