Species Detail - Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Northern Ireland Mammal Database".

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

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Sciurus vulgaris
Red Squirrel
NBNSYS0000005108 RecommendedWell-formed
Protected Species: Wildlife Acts
scvul
Linnaeus, 1758
Terrestrial mammal
Species
2197
184
55
01/01/1911
29/11/2015
1 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 2004)
Centre for Data and Environmental Recording (CEDaR), Northern Ireland Mammal Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/230/Species/119283>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)