Caption

Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps Scalloped ribbonfish) with a large fish in its beak swimming on a lake, devouring a large, captured rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), blue water, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date

Jun 02, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Frank Sommariva

Reference

BRK26D82_362

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

37.1Mb (12.4Mb) / 12.0in x 12.0in / 3600 x 3600 (300dpi)

Keywords

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