Caption

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), copula, mating in the evening light in front of the colony, Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park, East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Date

May 20, 2010

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Volker Lautenbach

Reference

BRK25B62_446

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NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,3Mb (2,3Mb) / 17,3in x 11,5in / 5184 x 3456 (300dpi)

Keywords

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