Caption

Black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), adult male, looks out of his breeding cavity in an old beech tree, holds excrement, faecal sac in his beak, brood hygiene, nest hygiene, keeps the woodpecker cavity clean, animal behaviour, largest native woodpecker species, woodpecker, old trees, 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_312

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

36,4Mb (1,5Mb) / 9,7in x 14,6in / 2912 x 4368 (300dpi)

Keywords

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