Species Detail - Little Tern (Sternula albifrons) - 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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Sternula albifrons
Little Tern
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stalb
(Pallas, 1764)
bird
Species
129
29
23
30/07/1997
22/08/2024
17 April (recorded in 2018)
13 October (recorded in 2019)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Little Tern (Sternula albifrons), accessed 25 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/12116>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)