Species Detail - Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) - 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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Ardea purpurea
Purple Heron
NHMSYS0000530173 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
arpur
Linnaeus, 1766
bird
Species
1
1
1
27/03/2005
27/03/2005
19 March (recorded in 1990)
30 October (recorded in 1996)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/11143>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)