Caption

Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Indicator of clean watercourses, mating feeding, female with perch as prey, fishing, hunting, Flying Gemstone, Middle Elbe River Landscape, Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Date

Mar 28, 2022

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Thomas Hinsche

Reference

BRK25B81_405

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

42,1Mb (1,8Mb) / 15,7in x 10,4in / 4700 x 3133 (300dpi)

Keywords

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