Caption

A gannet (Morus bassanus) (synonym: Sula bassana) next to a young bird on a rock with other birds in the background, young bird, chick in juvenile plumage with remains of downy feathers on the head and neck, nest with plastic debris as nesting material, marine pollution, gannet colony on the Lummenfelsen, Helgoland Island, North Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Date

Sep 04, 2017

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Carola Vahldiek

Reference

BRK24G43_052

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

39,6Mb (2,2Mb) / 15,0in x 10,3in / 4485 x 3086 (300dpi)

Keywords

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