#3713 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Brown Hawker

🇳🇱 Bruine Glazenmaker ·Aeshna grandis

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jerry Lanfear · CC BY 4.0
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5. © Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
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9. © Dmitry Dubikovskiy · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

9 in) long. It is a distinctive species and is easily recognised, even in flight, by its brown body and bronze wings. At rest, blue spots on the second and third segments of the male's abdomen can be noticed; these are absent in female.

base stats

NL sightings 61iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,230iNaturalist 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).