Caption

Together at the nest... Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), pair of birds of prey at their eyrie, rare observation, normally the larger and stronger female sparrowhawk reigns on the nest and drives the tercel away from there, male sparrowhawk, tercel is much smaller than the breeding female, wildlife, native nature, Meerbusch, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 10, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25N02_384

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

36,4Mb (2,0Mb) / 14,6in x 9,7in / 4368 x 2912 (300dpi)

Keywords

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