Migrant Hawker

infraorder Anisoptera - family Aeshnidae

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The Migrant Hawker has been spreading north throughout Europe over the last few decades. It was uncommon in Britain until the 1940's and reached the Isle of Man in 1998 and Ireland in 2000. Now the breeding population here is boosted by migrants from continental Europe in the Autumn.