#3682 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Southern Hawker

🇳🇱 Blauwe glazenmaker ·Aeshna cyanea

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Anna Kranz · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Mateusz Sowiński · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © tontonyoshi · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Graham Gavaghan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Liam Maguire · CC BY 4.0
8. © Dean Morley · CC BY-ND 4.0

what is it?

The species is one of the most common and most widespread dragonflies in Europe. The total range is West Palearctic and covers a large part of Europe (to Scotland and southern Scandinavia in the North to Italy (without the Southwest) and the northern Balkans to the South); the Eastern boundary is formed by the Ural and the West by...

base stats

NL sightings 415iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 29,821iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 415 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #21 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
29,821 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 (262 years ago).