Caption

Rare observation... Black stork (Ciconia nigra), also known as Wood Stork, adult bird at the nest with almost fledged offspring, young birds, very secretive and reclusive native stork species, threatened in many places by the construction of wind turbines, native nature, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 30, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25M97_055

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

36,4Mb (2,5Mb) / 14,6in x 9,7in / 4368 x 2912 (300dpi)

Keywords

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