Caption

Swift as an arrow... Swift (Apus apus) in flight, stays in the air almost without interruption for about ten months outside the breeding season, sleeps in flight, Lower Rhine, Rhine district of Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 19, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK26A95_295

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

25,8Mb (418,7Kb) / 12,3in x 8,2in / 3675 x 2450 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted sleep month Bird wild animal animal Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia German wildlife Europe round circle nap flight european Apodiformes Germany area interruption breeding season wildlife photography Common Swift Niederrhein outdoors in flight natural environment bird photography Central Europe Western europe fly Rhine district no one animals in the wild NRW fauna German Federal Republic breeding time Lower Rhine outside in the air habitat Middle Europe No People Wildlife Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia snooze Republic of Germany mid air natural habitat nobody North-Rhine Westphalia doze FRG in a flight uninhabited take a nap in the sky empty sleeping months Birds wild animals animals circles napping flights naps areas interruptions Common Swifts natural environments flying snoozing dozing BRD in the flight taking a nap sleeps Europe's outdoor out open sky flies snoozes dozes takes a nap