Caption

Black-headed Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), mating pair in the colony, Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Date

May 11, 2009

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Volker Lautenbach

Reference

BRK25A94_267

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

28,8Mb (1,2Mb) / 13,0in x 8,6in / 3888 x 2592 (300dpi)

Keywords

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