Caption

Bathing fun... Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna), colourful male duck, drake bathes, splashes water on the plumage with flapping wings, used for plumage care, cleans itself, looks funny, reminds a little of cartoon characters, native nature, North Holland, Netherlands, Western Europe

Date

Apr 06, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25H67_088

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

103.4Mb (2.7Mb) / 24.5in x 16.4in / 7360 x 4912 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted color comic care cleaning cleanliness male animal water Duck drake water bird Bird wild animal animal behaviour animal nature Benelux wildlife Europe dutch clean male cartoon character Tadorninae in water The Netherlands look european nurse meager plumage Common shelduck Holland take a bath preen wildlife photography Province of North Holland natural environment bird photography Central Europe duck bird geese bird Western europe Shelduck plumage care colourful no one colour tidiness waterfront waterfowl animals in the wild open air fauna cleanse comic character in the water Netherlands view sparse bath plume North Holland habitat Middle Europe shelducks grooming its plumage No People adult male aquatic bird Wildlife Benelux countries purify on water Kingdom of the Netherlands look at groom few have a bath Noord-Holland natural habitat Tadorna grooming feathers nobody looks into little while bathing Province North Holland Plumage care uninhabited looking out scantily for a swim tending its feathers empty observe grooming gazes watching view over colors comics cleanings male animals waters Ducks drakes water birds Birds wild animals animals males cartoon characters looks nursing plumages Common shelducks taking a bath preening natural environments duck birds colours waterfowls cleansing comic characters Netherland views caring bathing pluming aquatic birds looking at having a bath tending their feathers observes paint cleaned Europe's cleans looking nurses takes a bath preens cleanses view of cares bathes plumes looks at overlooking grooms has a bath grooming its feathers over