Species Detail - Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) - 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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Morus bassanus
Northern Gannet
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Protected Species: Wildlife Acts || Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern || Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern >> Birds of Conservation Concern - Amber List
mobas
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
1069
229
78
21/07/1978
27/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 1999)
31 December (recorded in 2012)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10817>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)