What is the difference between a Migrant Hawker and a common hawker?

The Common Hawker is larger and darker than the Migrant Hawker, lacks the lime green spots of the Southern Hawker, and has more black and less blue than the rare Azure Hawker of North Scotland.
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What is the difference between a common hawker and a migrant hawker?

The Common Hawker is similar but is larger and lacks the golf tee mark at the top of the abdomen. The Migrant Hawker breeds in a variety of well vegetated aquatic habitats and is often also recorded well away from water along hedgerows and woodland edges.
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What are the characteristics of the migrant hawker?

The Migrant hawker is mostly dark brown and black in colour. The male has pale blue spots and yellow flecks all along the body, dark blue eyes, and pale yellow-and-blue patches on the thorax. The female has yellowish spots and brownish eyes. The black-and-blue hawkers are a tricky group of dragonflies to identify.
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How do you identify a southern migrant hawker?

They have yellowish-green sides to the thorax and a black abdomen with extensive blue markings. There is a blue, triangular marking at the top of the abdomen.
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Is a hawker a dragonfly?

Hawkers are the largest and fastest flying dragonflies; they catch their insect-prey mid-air and can hover or fly backwards.
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UK Dragonflies: Southern Hawker ~ Migrant Hawker ~ Common Darter

What are the different types of Hawkers?

Furthermore, they can be classified based on their mobility: the stationary vendor, conducting business in a fixed location; the semi-stationary vendor, operating in makeshift structures; and the mobile vendor, conducting business by moving to different locations.
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How do you identify a Norfolk Hawker?

How to identify. The Norfolk hawker is entirely pale brown apart from a yellow triangle at the base of the body. It is similar to the larger brown hawker, but paler in colour, with green eyes and clear wings.
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Are southern hawkers rare?

The species has become increasingly common in recent decades across most of England and Wales, apart from the far north of England.
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What is the female Azure Hawker?

The Azure Hawker dragonfly is small Hawker dragonfly which has a scattered distribution in Highland moorlands and bogs. The males have blue eyes and blue spots, while the females come in two colour forms – blue or brown. Azure Hawker dragonflies are only found in Scotland within the UK.
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What is the life cycle of the Southern Hawker dragonfly?

The eggs are laid by jabbing the abdomen into rotting vegetation or wood. The eggs hatch in the spring, after being laid in the previous summer or autumn. The nymphs feed on aquatic insects, small tadpoles, invertebrates and small fish. They emerge as adults in July and August after two to three years' development.
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What are the four types of migrant groups?

There are four major forms of migration: invasion, conquest, colonization and emigration/immigration. People moving from their home due to forced displacement (such as a natural disaster or civil disturbance) may be described as displaced persons or, if remaining in the home country, internally-displaced persons.
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Are emperor dragonflies rare in the UK?

It is a common species of large ponds and lakes, as well as canals and ditches, but is rarely found away from water. The female lays her eggs in floating pondweed. One of the largest dragonfly species in Europe, the emperor dragonfly flies up high to look for insect-prey, such as butterflies and chaser dragonflies.
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How do you know if someone is a migrant?

A migrant is someone who is moving from place to place (within his or her country or across borders), usually for economic reasons such as seasonal work.
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Is a hawker a gypsy?

Historically, ancestors with itinerant occupations may be recorded as hawkers or pedlars but not all were Gypsies.
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What is the hawker rule?

The new rules are designed to balance the livelihoods of vendors with the need for smooth traffic flow, public safety, and urban order. According to officials, hawkers operating without valid licenses or encroaching upon key public spaces will face immediate penalties and potential eviction.
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Is a common darter a dragonfly?

The Common darter is a small, narrow-bodied dragonfly that is typically on the wing from July to October, but can appear as early as May and still be around in December if its mild. This is a very common dragonfly, breeding in all sorts of waterbodies from ponds and ditches, to rivers and lakes.
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What is the difference between a southern hawker and a common hawker?

The Common Hawker is larger and darker than the Migrant Hawker, lacks the lime green spots of the Southern Hawker, and has more black and less blue than the rare Azure Hawker of North Scotland.
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What's the biggest dragonfly in the UK?

One of the largest species in the UK, the emperor dragonfly measures 7.8cm long. Males are pale blue with a green thorax and black stripe along the body. Females are a slightly duller blue. Both have green-blue eyes and are recognised by their impressive size.
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What is the lifespan of a hawker dragonfly?

In some species, the nymphal stage lasts up to five years, and the adult stage may be as long as 10 weeks, but most species have an adult lifespan in the order of five weeks or less, and some survive for only a few days.
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Where do Brown Hawkers live?

Generally common in England apart from in the far north and south-west; widespread in west Wales. Currently absent from Scotland apart from occasional sightings. Brown Hawker has significantly increased its range in across Britain in recent years.
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How do you identify a skipper?

The most reliable way of telling them apart is to look at the underside of the antennae tips, which is orange in small skipper and black in Essex skipper – often cited as looking like it has been dipped into ink.
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Are dragonflies protected in the UK?

Species protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The Norfolk Hawker is one of two brown hawker dragonflies found in Britain. Males and females look similar and have a yellow triangular mark near the top of the abdomen.
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How do you identify a TUI?

Features: Tūī have two curled white tufts under the chin and small white feathers around the necks. Read more about tūī. Feather colours: The upper parts are blue-green with a purple and bronze sheen on the neck and wings. Their underparts are bright white.
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Why is it called a hawker?

In the early 1800s, people who sold food on the streets in Singapore became known as “street peddling hawkers.” Because it was an affordable, low-cost way to start a food business, many unemployed people started street hawking after World War II, which created more demand for cheap and affordable foods.
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What is meant by "no hawkers"?

The No Hawkers or Canvassers Sign - Representative by Appointment Only sign tells people they cannot sell or promote things at a particular place. It is used when the people who live or work there don't want strangers coming to their door to sell things or ask for donations.
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