wryneck

He added that on a previous bird watching trip he had seen a migratory wryneck hit by a train.

Waterston never wrote up his wrynecks, while another man, John Barrett, posted to himself at war's end a huge body of raw data that never arrived.

Snake′-bird, a darter: the wryneck; Snake′-eel, a long Mediterranean eel, its tail without a tail-fin.—adj.

The sound is unlike any other, but that is nothing, since the same can be said of the wryneck and cuckoo and grasshopper warbler.

Now the spring visitors—as the cuckoo, the swallow, and wryneck—appear in Surrey considerably sooner than they do farther west.