Species Detail - Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "The First Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1968-1972.".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Melanitta nigra
Common Scoter
N/A
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menig
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
15
15
7
01/04/1968
31/07/1972
1 January (recorded in 2018)
31 December (recorded in 2018)
BirdWatch Ireland, The First Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1968-1972., National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra), accessed 28 March 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/20/Species/10100>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)