Species Detail - Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Ireland's BioBlitz".

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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Larus argentatus
Herring Gull
NBNSYS0000000038 RecommendedWell-formed
Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern || Threatened Species: Birds of Conservation Concern >> Birds of Conservation Concern - Amber List
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Pontoppidan, 1763
Bird
Species
98
28
23
21/05/2010
29/09/2016
1 January (recorded in 1970)
31 December (recorded in 1986)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/10045

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)