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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Odonata# : Aeshnidae (Hawker dragonflies)
•  Info All by me. -- Hockei (talk) 06:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Hockei (talk) 06:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daphne Lantier 07:24, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:06, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- PumpkinSky talk 10:50, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Dragoflies do push-ups?? O_o --cart-Talk 11:12, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:47, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 13:38, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 13:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Biplab Anand (Talk) 14:42, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Question An unusual perch for an Aeshnidae. Hope the image is not rotated? Jee 03:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Never! I always portray the life as natural as it is. E.g. this specimen also was in natural position. It was sitting and flattering it's wings. Animals often do thinks that we wouldn't expect. --Hockei (talk) 05:50, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I thought about that again. It can be that I took this photo more downward from the embankment in direction to the creek. Maybe this perspective let it looks like as if the migrant hawker was stretching the abdomen upward but it wasn't. --Hockei (talk) 09:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I find that 90% of specimens exclusively use the 'vertical' perch, so it's not that unusual. Charles (talk) 09:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Hockei and Charles for the explanation. So this sits in the unusual 10% slot!  Support. Jee 11:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:48, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 04:25, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Daphne Lantier 18:31, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Odonata# : Aeshnidae (Hawker dragonflies)