Caption

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) sitting on the shore, stretching wings for drying wet feathers, silhouetted at sunset along the North Sea coast

Date

Feb 24, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/alimdi / Arterra

Reference

BRK26C06_218

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66.5Mb (2.9Mb) / 19.7in x 13.1in / 5906 x 3937 (300dpi)

Keywords

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