Species Detail - Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Birds of Ireland".

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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Ardea cinerea
Grey Heron
NBNSYS0000000006 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
arcin
Linnaeus, 1758
Bird
Species
5600
671
128
17/06/1992
27/10/2025
1 January (recorded in 1970)
31 December (recorded in 1981)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10024

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)