wrynecks in English

noun
1
an Old World bird of the woodpecker family, with brown camouflaged plumage and a habit of twisting and writhing the neck when disturbed.
There are two additional subfamilies of the Picidae, Picumninae, which is the sister group of the true woodpeckers, and Jynginae ( wrynecks ), which is sister to the Picinae-Picumninae clade.

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