Caption

Woodpecker tongue... Black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), adult male, sits in typical pose in front of his tree cavity in an old beech tree, sticks out his highly specialised long tongue, largest native woodpecker species, woodpecker, needs old trees as habitat for reproduction and foraging, wildlife, native nature, Meerbusch, Rhineland, Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

May 15, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25N01_301

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59,1Mb (2,8Mb) / 12,4in x 18,6in / 3712 x 5568 (300dpi)

Keywords

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