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- Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck
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- 首曲がり / アリスイ(キツツキ科の小鳥)
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出典(authority):フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』「2012/09/05 19:34:09」(JST)
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For the wry neck medical condition, see torticollis.
For the warship, see HMS Wryneck (D21).
| Wrynecks |
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| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Aves |
| Order: |
Piciformes |
| Family: |
Picidae |
| Genus: |
Jynx
Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species |
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J. torquilla
J. ruficollis
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The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers.
Like the true woodpeckers, wrynecks have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk.
Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the true woodpeckers, but their chief prey is ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.
The two species have cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.
These birds get their English name from their ability to turn their heads almost 180 degrees. When disturbed at the nest, they use this snake-like head twisting and hissing as a threat display. This odd behaviour led to their use in witchcraft, hence to put a "jinx" on someone.
There are two species:
- Eurasian Wryneck, Jynx torquilla
- Red-throated Wryneck, or Rufous-necked Wryneck, Jynx ruficollis
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English Journal
- Commentary on "adapting to higher demands: using innovative methods to treat infants presenting with torticollis and plagiocephaly".
- Oledzka M1, Kaplan SL.
- Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association.Pediatr Phys Ther.2014 Fall;26(3):346. doi: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000049.
- PMID 24979092
- Adapting to higher demands: using innovative methods to treat infants presenting with torticollis and plagiocephaly.
- Surprenant D1, Milne S, Moreau K, Robert ND.
- Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association.Pediatr Phys Ther.2014 Fall;26(3):339-45. doi: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000048.
- PURPOSE: Referrals for torticollis/plagiocephaly have increased dramatically because of "Back to Sleep" campaigns and front-line staff becoming more proficient at recognition and referral to physiotherapy. These infants generally respond well to early intervention so longer waitlists raise concern a
- PMID 24979091
- Microvascular decompression surgery is effective for the laterocollis subtype of spasmodic torticollis: a long-term follow-up result.
- Mei Q1, Zhang C, Jiang Y, Sun K, Lu Y, Sui M, Hou L.
- Acta neurochirurgica.Acta Neurochir (Wien).2014 Aug;156(8):1551-6. doi: 10.1007/s00701-014-2120-y. Epub 2014 May 18.
- BACKGROUND: Spasmodic torticollis (ST) is characterized by sustained, involuntary, and painful spasms of specific muscle (s), which results into abnormal posture of the neck and head. Although various treatments for ST have been introduced, none of them shows absolute effectiveness. Earlier research
- PMID 24838841
Japanese Journal
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