Caption

Sometimes Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) catch relatively large prey fish, such as a smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) in this case, bird colony, fishing, prey, prey fish, rearing young, aerial photograph, June, Eider Barrage, North Sea, Germany

Date

Jun 21, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Schulz Helge

Reference

BRK26J12_050

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59.8Mb (19.9Mb) / 18.7in x 12.4in / 5600 x 3733 (300dpi)

Keywords

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