Species Detail - Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991".

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 fusca
Velvet Scoter
N/A
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mefus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
1
1
1
01/04/1988
31/07/1991
2 January (recorded in 2018)
19 December (recorded in 2016)
BirdWatch Ireland, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca), accessed 26 April 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/46/Species/10099>

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