Species Detail - European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) - 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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Pluvialis apricaria
European Golden Plover
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plapr
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
1094
295
100
06/10/1992
25/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 2018)
31 December (recorded in 2021)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria), accessed 25 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10036>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)