Caption

Early in the morning... Hunting pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), pheasant asserts its territorial claim with a fluttering leap and a widely audible pheasant cry, mating, mating behaviour, Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe, Europe

Date

Apr 14, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25G09_257

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34.8Mb (1.3Mb) / 14.2in x 9.5in / 4272 x 2848 (300dpi)

Keywords

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