Species Detail - Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) - 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).
Live Map
Rallus aquaticus
Water Rail
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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
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
412
150
72
28/06/1994
03/11/2024
1 January (recorded in 2019)
31 December (recorded in 2010)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/11760>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)