Species Detail - Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) - 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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Haematopus ostralegus
Eurasian Oystercatcher
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haost
Linnaeus, 1758
bird
Species
2919
278
84
12/08/1994
29/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 2003)
31 December (recorded in 2010)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus), accessed 25 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10033>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)