Caption

Chicks in the nest... Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), young, not yet fledged birds of prey in down plumage, beginning moult into juvenile plumage, sparrowhawk offspring in their nest in the crown of a deciduous tree, local nature, Meerbusch, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 21, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25H97_054

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

41,1Mb (2,1Mb) / 15,5in x 10,3in / 4644 x 3096 (300dpi)

Keywords

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