Species Detail - Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) - 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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Chlidonias niger
Black Tern
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chnig
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
11
7
7
09/09/1993
06/09/2021
17 May (recorded in 2019)
2 December (recorded in 2017)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Black Tern (Chlidonias niger), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10181>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)