Species Detail - Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis) - 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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Sterna sandvicensis
Sandwich Tern
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stsan
Latham, 1787
bird
Species
604
139
58
12/08/1994
21/09/2024
22 January (recorded in 2005)
26 December (recorded in 2021)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10173>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)