Eurasian Wryneck

The Eurasian wryneck is a woodpecker-family bird 16–18 cm 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, the underparts cream speckled and spotted with brown, and the cheeks and throat buff barred brown. When disturbed at the nest it twists its head and hisses like a snake as a threat display (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its chief prey is ants and other insects found in decaying wood or on the ground. Seven to ten white eggs are laid in a hole in May and June. The call is a series of repeated harsh, shrill notes, quee-quee-quee-quee (Wikipedia, general species account).