Species Detail - Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) - 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).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Plectrophenax nivalis
Snow Bunting
NHMSYS0000530776 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
plniv
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bird
Species
61
41
35
06/02/1999
05/01/2025
1 January (recorded in 2021)
31 December (recorded in 2006)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), accessed 05 December 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/11734>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)