Species Detail - Great Egret (Ardea alba) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Rare birds of Ireland".

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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Ardea alba
Great Egret
NHMSYS0000530172 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
aralb
Linnaeus, 1758
bird
Species
86
60
36
22/05/1984
31/12/2014
2 January (recorded in 2012)
19 December (recorded in 2009)
Irish Rare Bird Committee, Rare birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Great Egret (Ardea alba), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/271/Species/11142>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)