Caption

Acrobats of the air... Swift (Apus apus) in flight, stays in the air for about ten months almost without interruption outside the breeding season, sleeps in flight, Lower Rhine, Rhine district of Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Aug 06, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25L88_177

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

25,8Mb (497,2Kb) / 8,2in x 12,3in / 2450 x 3675 (300dpi)

Keywords

sleep month air Bird wild animal animal Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia German wildlife Europe round circle nap flight circus artist acrobatics european Apodiformes artistic artistry Germany area interruption breeding season wildlife photography Common Swift Niederrhein outdoors in flight natural environment bird photography Central Europe Western europe fly Rhine district animals in the wild NRW fauna circus performer artistical German Federal Republic breeding time Lower Rhine outside in the air habitat Middle Europe Wildlife Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia snooze acrobat Republic of Germany mid air natural habitat North-Rhine Westphalia doze FRG in a flight take a nap in the sky sleeping months airs Birds wild animals animals circles napping flights circus artists naps areas interruptions Common Swifts natural environments flying snoozing acrobats dozing BRD in the flight taking a nap sleeps Europe's artist outdoor out open sky flies snoozes dozes takes a nap