Partial corpse ID, charente-maritime, France (1 Viewer)

[JamesA]

Stumbled across this a few days ago in a coastal mixed/mainly coniferous forest in the Charente-Maritime region of mid west France. I forgot to use anything as a size indicator.

Any ideas?

 

[Tib78]

It's a Dendrocopos woodpecker.

 

[nickderry]

It's a spotted woodpecker - so 3 possibilities for that region, Great, Middle and Lesser it should be identifiable to species from those outer tail feathers - though the pattern does depend on age with the species.

 

[JamesA]

I tentatively had it pegged as a 'pecker, but I wouldn't know which...

 

[Colin]

Lesser Spotted is not particularly big and you may be able to eliminate this one?