Caption

Colourful beauty... Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), male bird, drake, most colourful and conspicuous duck in Europe, not a native bird, origin Asia, neozoon, often feral, occasionally released in parks or captive escapees, universally popular, native nature, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Nov 22, 2024

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25H85_035

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

46,2Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,4in x 10,9in / 4928 x 3280 (300dpi)

Keywords

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