torquilla

Updated: May 2, 2025

As above stated, the specimen formerly in the Museum no longer exists. WRYNECK. Yunx torquilla, Linnaeus. French, "Torcol ordinaire." The Wryneck, or, as it is called in Guernsey-French, "Parlè" is generally a numerous summer visitant to the Islands, arriving in considerable numbers, about the same time as the mackerel, wherefore it has also obtained the local name of "Mackerel Bird."

Cecil Smith - Birds of Guernsey (1879) : And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands

Eastward out of the Torquilla Range the Burntwood River emerged from a gorge, flowing swift and turbulent during the spring months, shallow and murmurous the rest of the year, to pass through a basin formed by low mountains and break forth at last from a canyon and wind away over the mesa.

George C. (George Clifford) Shedd - In the Shadow of the Hills