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

BRK26G71_145

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

45.1Mb (15.0Mb) / 15.0in x 11.7in / 4500 x 3500 (300dpi)

Keywords

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