Caption

Nesting colony of sand martins or Rhine martins, nominate species (Riparia riparia riparia), many animals sitting at their breeding burrows or nesting holes in a sandy steep slope, several flying to land, steep coast on the Baltic Sea, Wulfener Steilküste nature reserve, Fehmarn Island, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Date

Jul 23, 2019

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Carola Vahldiek

Reference

BRK24G20_485

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

52,7Mb (4,0Mb) / 16,7in x 12,3in / 5000 x 3682 (300dpi)

Keywords

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