Species Detail - Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "An Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Burren and Aran Islands 1993 - 1996".

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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Sterna hirundo
Common Tern
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Linnaeus, 1758
bird
Species
8
4
3
01/03/1993
31/07/1996
15 March (recorded in 2018)
9 December (recorded in 2019)
BirdWatch Ireland, An Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Burren and Aran Islands 1993 - 1996, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/10/Species/10054>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)