Species Detail - Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) - 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).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Nycticorax nycticorax
Black-crowned Night Heron
NHMSYS0000530505 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
nynyc
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
70
54
35
01/01/1834
29/11/2014
3 March (recorded in 2006)
31 December (recorded in 1888)
Irish Rare Bird Committee, Rare birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/271/Species/11468>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)