Caption

Regular but rare winter visitor in North Rhine-Westphalia ... Red-breasted Merganser (Mergellus albellus) standing on an ice edge of a partially frozen body of water, adult female, female water bird, smallest merganser species, 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_172

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

28,9Mb (855,0Kb) / 13,0in x 8,7in / 3893 x 2595 (300dpi)

Keywords

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