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A dragonfly sits on top of a leaf stem in the sunlight. Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica.

$Tot: 45-50mm, Ab 30-37mm, Hw 33-38mm.\nIdentification:\nVery similar to O. cancellatum, with which it is found especially in the south-east, and as far west as France. However, it is sleeker, paler and more contrasting. Named for the contrasting white appendages of both sexes.\nBehavior:\nLike O. cancellatum, male often sits on open ground near the water, making very fast, low flights over the water.\nOccurrence:\nDistribution is patchy, but the species is generally not uncommon, stretching to China and Japan.\nHabitat: Open Ponds and Lakes.\nFlight Season: From the end of May to mid-September.\n\nThis nice Skimmer is photographed during a Vacation in France in May 1990. Scanned from a slide.$

Common redshank (Tringa totanus). Wildlife animal.

Dragon-fly, view from above, blue - black, big, sitting on a rock, wings spreaded out, USA, Kenai Peninsula

Sandpipers along the shoreline of the Esquimalt Lagoon.

a female flat-bellied dragonfly (Libellula depressa) perches on a withered branch. In the background a green meadow. There is a lot of space for text. The dragonfly is photographed from above

Connemara, county Galway, Connacht province, Ireland, Europe

Eurasian coot is swimming in the lake in Russia

$Field characters: Tot 56-64mm, Ab 43-54mm, Hw 37-42mm. Distinctly smaller than most Aeshna species.\n\nThe commonest small hawker. Numerous in much of our area, and although it can be on the wing during most months in the Mediterranean, further north it is especially associated with late summer and autumn, when it may appear in massive migrations. It is usually identified by its size, relative dull colours and the diagnostic yellow \$

View from Delta del Ebro, in Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain.

A male migrant hawker hanging from a bramble in the English countryside.

Dragonfly an efficient hunter on fruit tree

A Moorhen walks on the ice of a frozen lake

Shorebird - Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius on green background, wildlife Poland Europe

White breasted Kingfisher in Lotus flowers

The Black-tailed Skimmer is a narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen flying low over the bare gravel and mud around flooded gravel pits and reservoirs.

$Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) adult wading in sea\n\nEccles-on-Sea, Norfolk, UK. December$

Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) is a small wader in the plover bird family.

A female merganser floats leisurely on the blue river

Tarantula Hawk Wasp; Pepsis pallidolimbata; Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area; Nevada; Mojave Desert; Family Pompilidae; Order Hymenoptera; Insecta; Arthropoda; on Desert Milkweed, Asclepias erosa

Natural closeup on a common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans sitting on a green leaf

The Banded Demoiselle can be seen flitting around slow-moving rivers, ponds and lakes. ... Male Banded Demoiselles are metallic blue, with broad, dark blue patches on each wing.

$Tot 30-36mm, Ab. 25-30mm, Hw 19-24mm.\nA robust, dark, ‘blue-tailed damselfly’, usually found sitting away from the shore on floating vegetation, particularly water-lilies.\nWidespread over much of Europe except the far S and N, with a more northerly distribution than similar Small Redeye.\nBehaviour: Flies earlier in the season than Small Redeye, peaking about a month earlier, and usually keeps abdomen straight. In fine weather, males patrol low over water or sit on floating leaves, where they fight for strategic positions near open areas. They quickly move to nearby vegetation when the sun goes in, often\nlanding in trees. Eggs are laid, while in tandem, into stems and leaves of floating and sometimes emergent plants. Egg-laying often underwater, still in tandem.\nBreeding habitat: Closely associated with floating leaves, typically water-lilies, but also pondweeds and other floating vegetation.\nFavored sites include larger ponds, lakes and flooded mineral workings, canals, large drains and slow-flowing rivers, with floating leaves of water lilies or pondweeds.\nFlight Season: From April to August, with a peak in June.\nDistribution: M. Europe, except the Mediterranean and the far North.\n\nThis is a quite common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.$

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