Caption

In the tree... Brown duck (Aix sponsa), female, very pretty duck species, not actually native to Germany, natural distribution area North America, but often a captive refugee, typical picture for the species, lives mainly on forest lakes, adapted to a life in wooded areas, trees serve as breeding and resting places, prefers to breed in abandoned nesting cavities of woodpeckers, native nature, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Mar 04, 2024

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25H98_052

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26,1Mb (1,3Mb) / 12,3in x 8,2in / 3700 x 2467 (300dpi)

Keywords

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