Caption

Two crows (Corvus corone), carrion crows, crows and a herring gull (Larus argentatus) stand on a quiet, rocky sandy beach with green algae and look at a dead grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) with a broken body and visible red meat and rib bones, carrion, washed up carcass with a full head and closed eyes, aseater, gruesome, repulsive, perishable, dying, illness, sick, North Sea, Dune island, Heligoland, Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date

Jul 11, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Carola Vahldiek

Reference

BRK25M05_250

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

22,9Mb (2,8Mb) / 11,8in x 7,5in / 3554 x 2251 (300dpi)

Keywords

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