Caption

Siskin (Spinus spinus) sits in a bizarre scene on the back of a sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), which at the same time holds a dead siskin in its claws, while a third siskin sits next to the sparrowhawk on the railing of a research vessel, songbird mass migration at night, Baltic Sea, offshore, Germany

Date

Oct 17, 2015

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Martin Grimm

Reference

BRK26B88_485

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26.8Mb (2.0Mb) / 8.3in x 12.5in / 2500 x 3748 (300dpi)

Keywords

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