Title

Little Bittern

Caption

Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) holding onto cattail leaves with its feet, looking for prey, pond with water fringe (Nymphoides peltata), Beli Lom, Bulgaria, Europe

Date

Jun 21, 2013

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Alex Labhardt

Reference

BRK23A53_173

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Royalty free

Available size

46,0Mb (1,5Mb) / 16,4in x 10,9in / 4928 x 3264 (300dpi)

Keywords

Ardeidae Aves Beli Bird Birds Bittern Bitterns Botaurinae Bulgaria Bulrush Cattail Cattails Ciconiiformes Croatia Croatian East Europe East European Eastern Europe Eastern European Heron Herons Ixobrychus minutus Kvarner Bay Kvarner Gulf Little bittern Little bitterns Menyanthaceae No People Nymphoides Nymphoides peltata Pelecaniformes Primorje-Gorski Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Reedmace See Southeast Europe Southeastern Europe Typha Typhaceae Wildlife animal animal behavior animal behaviour animal of prey animals animals in the wild animals of prey aquatic macrophyte aquatic plant aquatic plants behavior behaviour bird photography bloom blossom blossoms body of water capture catch catches countryside deserted eat empty fauna feed feeding floatingheart flowering forage foraging foraging for food fringed water-lily gazes habitat helophyte helophytes hold holding hunting food hydrophyte hydrophytic plant in flower inflorescence inflorescences ingestion lake lakes landscape landscape photo landscape shot landscapes leaf leaves limnodophyte look look at look out looking for looking for food looking out looks looks into marsh plant natural environment natural environments natural habitat nature no one nobody observe pond ponds pool prey prey animal preying preys scenery search for food searching for food uninhabited view view over watch out watching water fringe water fringes water plant wild animal wild animals wildlife wildlife photography yellow Balkan Balkan Peninsula Balkans Bulgarian Cres Cres island animal feed animal feeds aquatic bird fodder food water water bird water birds waterfowl waters