Species Detail - Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) - 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).
Leucophaeus atricilla
Laughing Gull
NHMSYS0021274071
RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
N/A
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bird
Species
55
31
24
12/08/1968
28/12/2014
3 January (recorded in 1998)
25 December (recorded in 2005)
Irish Rare Bird Committee, Rare birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla), accessed 14 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/271/Species/305551