Species Detail - Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) - 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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Numenius phaeopus
Whimbrel
NBNSYS0000000144 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
nupha
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bird
Species
664
206
82
21/07/1978
20/10/2025
1 January (recorded in 2011)
31 December (recorded in 2018)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10059

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)