Caption

Size ratios... female red-breasted merganser (Mergellus albellus) and male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) side by side on a sheet of ice, female red-breasted merganser is a rare winter visitor, mallard drake a common native waterfowl, native nature, Lower Rhine, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Feb 09, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK26A40_165

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34,8Mb (987,5Kb) / 14,2in x 9,5in / 4272 x 2848 (300dpi)

Keywords

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