Species Detail - Great White Egret (Ardea alba) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Rare birds of Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Ardea alba
Great White Egret
NHMSYS0000530172
RecommendedWell-formed
Ardea alba Linnaeus, Casmerodius albus , Casmerodius albus albus , Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758), Egretta alba (Linnaeus), Great Egret
N/A
aralb
Linnaeus, 1758
Bird
Species
86
60
36
22/05/1984
31/12/2014
2 January (recorded in 2012)
24 December (recorded in 2024)
Irish Rare Bird Committee, Rare birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Great White Egret (Ardea alba), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/271/Species/11142>