Species Detail - Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) - 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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Branta leucopsis
Barnacle Goose
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Protected Species: Wildlife Acts || Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern || Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern >> Birds of Conservation Concern - Amber List
brleu
(Bechstein, 1803)
bird
Species
133
51
35
06/12/1999
01/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 2019)
31 December (recorded in 2020)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10108>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)