Caption

High up on the bramble bushes... Common stonechat (Saxicola torquata) Male in breeding plumage, splendid plumage sits exposed on the top of a bramble bush, on a thorny bramble vine, watches over the breeding territory, rather rare songbird, threatened by habitat loss, migratory bird, one of the first returnees from the winter territories, native nature, Meerbusch, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Apr 05, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25M96_448

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

28,3Mb (919,9Kb) / 12,8in x 8,6in / 3852 x 2568 (300dpi)

Keywords

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