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The species belies its vernacular name being relatively unusual in
Warwickshire. Records are confined to the north and east of the county.
Until a series of sighting in the south-easterly part of the county in
the '90s a clear correlation with the more acid conditions in the north
was noticeable.
Records for Sutton Park in 2001 were received from the Park rangers
Stephan Bodnar and Barry Rowe.
The Warwickshire branch of Butterfly Conservation recorded the
species at ten sites in 2003, most in the north of the county. Some
records are for late June/early July making confusion with Migrant
Hawker A. mixta less probable.
There is some doubt regarding some identifications, confusion with
Migrant Hawker A. mixta is
possible. The author has not been fortunate enough to see the species
in the
county during 25 years of recording dragonflies here. This is
in spite of carefully looking for it in some of the more likely sites
in the North of the county. However, some of the
records are certainly for Common Hawker, the problem is knowing which
they are.
The presence of the species breeding in the county remains to be
positively confirmed.
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