Species Detail - Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) - 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).
Gavia immer
Great Northern Diver
NBNSYS0000000220
RecommendedWell-formed
Colymbus glacialis Linnaeus, Colymbus immer Brunnich, Common Loon , Gavia immer immer (Brünnich, 1764), Gavia immer immer
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gaimm
(Brünnich, 1764)
Bird
Species
751
179
65
06/03/1993
28/09/2025
1 January (recorded in 1996)
31 December (recorded in 2008)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10111