Species Detail - Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) - 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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Branta bernicla
Brent Goose
NBNSYS0000000260 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
brber
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bird
Species
1658
168
68
27/11/1994
31/10/2025
1 January (recorded in 1980)
31 December (recorded in 1986)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Brent Goose (Branta bernicla), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10127

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)