Urothemis edwardsii
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Urothemis edwardsii, the blue basker, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankarafantsika National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | uMkhuze Game Reserve | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 4 | Moremi Game Reserve | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 5 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antananarivo | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Blue Basker sighting in Moremi Game Reserve on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 19 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October and November
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Blue Basker in Moremi Game Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in February and April–August, the lowest months. Those are among Moremi Game Reserve's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in January.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blue Basker sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Blue Basker sightings, Moremi Game Reserve ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Ankarafantsika National Park (Madagascar, about 40%), uMkhuze Game Reserve (South Africa, about 20%) and iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa, about 20%).
Same family: Libellulidae
The closest relatives of the Blue Basker that you can see in Moremi Game Reserve (family Libellulidae, Skimmers) are Southern Banded Groundling (about 40%), Broad Scarlet (about 20%) and Black Percher (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blue Basker is recorded against all the insects logged in Moremi Game Reserve (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
