Species Detail - Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Birds of Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Melanitta fusca
Velvet Scoter
N/A
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mefus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
21
6
3
06/02/1992
02/01/2018
2 January (recorded in 2018)
19 December (recorded in 2016)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10099>