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A gift for you
The male bird offers nesting material to the female. When this is accepted, the couple can start mating. Couple of great crested grebes during the beautiful display of courting. Schardam, North-Holland, Netherlands.
Author: Steppeland - Lutgarde De Brouwer
Steppeland
Photo size: 15.2 Mpixels (43.4 MB uncompressed) - 4768x3179 pixels (15.9x10.6 in / 40.4x26.9 cm at 300 ppi)
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Published in: Spectacular courtship of the grebe, Animals