Species Detail - Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015".

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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Sciurus carolinensis
Eastern Grey Squirrel
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sccar
Gmelin, 1788
terrestrial mammal
Species
1065
271
67
26/03/1980
30/12/2015
1 January (recorded in 2003)
31 December (recorded in 2002)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/252/Species/119515>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)