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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAU" data-source="post: 1472469" data-attributes="member: 55324">Jane, the first attempt sounds more reasonable than the second. I can see only one feather belonging to the alula, and I believe that you cannot automatically assume that the longest feather of the alula would be the only one that's left.Anyway, I believe we are over-analyizing this a bit. It seems a bit silly to claim that the wings may be something like 3 mm too long for Nuthatch, as the head looks quite obvius for one, at least to me. Are there even any contenders which would have a wing length in the range 90-100 mm and a bill tip to skull length in the range 18-20 mm (or a bill tip to nostril length in the range 13-14 mm)?Of course, there might be a (perhaps remote) chance that the wings belong to some other bird, as some predators may often eat their prey at the same place. On the other hand, you can see that the base of the inner vane of at least one primary on the right wing is white, which fits Nuthatch.<a href="http://www.rutkies.de/voegel/laeufer/Sitta%20europaea%20-%20Kleiber%2010.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rutkies.de/voegel/laeufer/Sitta europaea - Kleiber 10.jpg</a></blockquote>