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
NHMSYS0000530803 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
raaqu
Linnaeus, 1758
Bird
Species
430
155
72
28/06/1994
25/10/2025
1 January (recorded in 1984)
31 December (recorded in 1988)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus), accessed 21 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/11760

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)