The last living survivor from " Slamat ", Royal Army Service Corps veteran George Dexter, states that after " Wryneck " was sunk he and three other men were rescued by the cruiser.
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The birds sighted less frequently, called the'specialists'were ortolan bunting, desert warbler, pied tit, white-browed fantail, lesser spotted eagle, sirkeer malkoha, Eurasian wryneck and yellow-crowned woodpecker.
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The call of the Eurasian wryneck is a series of repeated harsh, shrill notes " quee-quee-quee-quee " lasting for several seconds and is reminiscent of the voice of the lesser spotted woodpecker.
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The last living survivor from " Slamat ", Royal Army Service Corps veteran George Dexter, states that after " Wryneck " was sunk he and three other men were rescued by " Orion ".
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Aristotle writes about limbs, the teeth of dogs, horses, man, and elephant; the elephant's tongue; and of animals such as the apes, crocodile, chameleon, birds especially the wryneck, fishes and snakes.
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At about 13 : 15, an air attack by German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters and Junkers Ju 88 bombers sank both destroyers within minutes . " Wryneck " launched her whaler, and each destroyer launched her three Carley floats.
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The modern subfamilies appear to be rather young by comparison; until the mid-Miocene ( 10 15 mya ), all picids seem to have been small or mid-sized birds similar to a mixture between a piculet and a wryneck.
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An example would be an east wind in September blowing Scandinavian migrants such as bluethroats, wrynecks, and the continental race of robin onto the east coast of England and Scotland, leading to temporary concentrations of these species at headlands like Spurn.
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The Bryansk forest is the only place in Europe where there are all ten of the European woodpeckers : great spotted woodpecker, middle spotted, lesser spotted woodpecker, Syrian, white-backed, black woodpecker, grey, green, three-toed and Wryneck.
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The "'Eurasian wryneck "'( " Jynx torquilla " ) is a species of wryneck in the woodpecker migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and in southern Asia from Iran to the Indian Subcontinent, but some are resident in northwestern Africa.
