Caption

Safeguarding gaze... Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), while feeding, with prey in its clutches, a young falcon looks around for potential danger, sitting on the gravel roof of a high factory building, peregrine falcons are often the target of illegal raptor persecution, native nature, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 18, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25N02_406

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

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

Keywords

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