Species Detail - Badger (Meles meles) - 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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Meles meles
Badger
NHMSYS0000080191 RecommendedWell-formed
Protected Species: Wildlife Acts
memel
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Terrestrial mammal
Species
3385
243
66
01/01/1911
25/09/2015
1 January (recorded in 1969)
31 December (recorded in 1968)
Centre for Data and Environmental Recording (CEDaR), Northern Ireland Mammal Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Badger (Meles meles), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/230/Species/119470>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)