Species Detail - Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Seabird 2000".

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 paradisaea
Arctic Tern
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Pontoppidan, 1763
bird
Species
29
22
18
06/06/1999
06/06/2002
8 March (recorded in 2015)
5 December (recorded in 2017)
BirdWatch Ireland, Seabird 2000, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/145/Species/10175>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)