Caption

Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) (synonym: Sula bassana) sitting with algae as nesting material in its beak on red, earthy ground, sea in the background, gannet colony Lummenfelsen, Helgoland, North Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Date

Sep 07, 2017

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Carola Vahldiek

Reference

BRK24G32_063

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

53,7Mb (2,2Mb) / 19,6in x 10,6in / 5887 x 3190 (300dpi)

Keywords

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