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Brown Hawker

Aeshna grandis

74,127Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
88Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb15
Mar11
Apr24
May214
Jun4,361
Jul29,934
Aug29,135
Sep8,179
Oct419
Nov20
Dec10

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England6,484
2Suffolk England3,356
3Cambridgeshire England2,788
4Worcestershire England2,148
5North Yorkshire England2,005
6Nottinghamshire England1,935
7Oxfordshire England1,909
8Northamptonshire England1,873
9Bedford England1,561
10Kent England1,463
11Lincolnshire England1,367
12Leeds England1,338
13East Riding of Yorkshire England1,335
14Surrey England1,246
15Cheshire East England1,229
72,848 England37 Scotland1,040 Wales111 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
74,127
Peak month
July
Counties with records
88
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Aeshna grandis
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
73,727
Conservation designations
Global Red List (JNCC), GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Family
Aeshnidae
Genus
Aeshna
Name with authority
Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q798784 · GBIF 1425264