Species Detail - Great Skua (Stercorarius skua) - 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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Stercorarius skua
Great Skua
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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
stsku
(Brünnich, 1764)
bird
Species
9
4
4
09/06/2016
12/06/2016
4 January (recorded in 2017)
24 December (recorded in 1985)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Great Skua (Stercorarius skua), accessed 30 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/10155>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)