Species Detail - Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) - 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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Alcedo atthis
Common Kingfisher
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alatt
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
1491
385
101
12/10/1992
26/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 2015)
31 December (recorded in 2014)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), accessed 28 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/11112>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)