Species Detail - Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) - 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).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Alcedo atthis
Common Kingfisher
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alatt
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
9
8
7
21/05/2010
24/05/2014
1 January (recorded in 2015)
31 December (recorded in 2014)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/11112>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)