Caption

Hoopoe (Upupa epops) Bird of the Year 2022, female defending her territory, mating, courtship, erect plumage, threatening gesture, threatening, foraging, erect bonnet, sunrise, interaction, flying, begging for food, climate change, Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date

Apr 16, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Thomas Hinsche

Reference

BRK26A51_202

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

57,4Mb (2,9Mb) / 13,4in x 16,7in / 4007 x 5009 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted morning break of dawn UNESCO headgear Bird wild animal foraging animal feed animal behaviour animal global warming sunrise nature German wildlife Europe courtship season female animal mood threaten natural preserve reserve female climate change erect courtship display threatening courtship behavior flight Hoopoe atmospheric Biosphere Reserve threat interaction european East Germany social behaviour aggressive nature reserve cap display behaviour plumage defend aggression courtship Germany morning light threatening gesture wildlife photography Saxony-Anhalt posture Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve in flight display natural environment attack position mating behavior mating season River landscape Elbe Unesco-Biosphärenreservat bird photography Central Europe Hornbills and hoopoes climate crisis fly Bird of the Year no one morning atmosphere animals in the wild search for food food open air fauna atmosphere nature park protected area upstanding menacing courtship behaviour Biosphere Park Eastern Germany social behavior belligerent bonnet overawing courting German Federal Republic in first daylight threatening behaviour biosphere reserve Mittlere Elbe in the air habitat mating behaviour mating time Middle Europe No People morning scene Wildlife searching for food fodder Naturpark sanctuary upright nature conservation area imprinting mating Republic of Germany threatening position Biosphere Reserve Mittelelbe mid air natural habitat mating period nobody Morning forage intimidate conservation area erected natural reserve imponation FRG threatening posture Central Elbe Biosphere Reserve in a flight rutting season uninhabited hunting food environmental reserve Biosphärenreservat Mittelelbe in the sky empty foraging for food looking for food headgears Birds wild animals animal feeds animals sunrises courting seasons female animals natural preserves reserves females courtship behaviors flights Hoopoes Biosphere Reserves threats interactions social behaviours aggressively nature reserves caps plumages defending aggressions courtshiping threatening gestures postures displaying natural environments flying searches for food bonnets intimidating BRD in the flight sun rise sunrisetime sunrise time Europe's threatens moody NSG defends court courts courtships in the first light of day Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe displays Flusslandschaft-Elbe flies search of food natural park woos woo wooing intimidates