Species Detail - King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) - 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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Somateria spectabilis
King Eider
NBNSYS0000000271 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
sospe
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
13
9
8
02/01/2001
07/08/2022
2 January (recorded in 2001)
12 December (recorded in 1892)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, King Eider (Somateria spectabilis), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10133>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)