Species Detail - Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) - 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).
Live Map

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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sthir
Linnaeus, 1758
bird
Species
278
85
52
05/05/2001
30/05/2023
15 March (recorded in 2018)
9 December (recorded in 2019)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10054>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)