#3714 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Southern Migrant Hawker

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke Glazenmaker ·Aeshna affinis

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Sylvester Kociniak · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © alessandrof · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © James Kennerley · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Daniel Branch · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Strand en Duin, Hoek van Holland, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. 6024 Budel-Dorplein, Netherlands:© marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Strand en Duin, Hoek van Holland, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Aeshna affinis , the southern migrant hawker or blue-eyed hawker , is a dragonfly found in southern Europe and Asia. It is in the family Aeshnidae and is very similar in appearance to A. mixta .

base stats

NL sightings 57iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,477iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).