Species Detail - Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) - 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).
Thalasseus elegans
Elegant Tern
NHMSYS0021274161
RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
N/A
(Gambel, 1849)
Bird
Species
6
6
6
22/06/1982
19/07/2005
11 May (recorded in 2024)
19 October (recorded in 2001)
Irish Rare Bird Committee, Rare birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans), accessed 22 February 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/271/Species/305569