Species Detail - Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023".
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).
Larus fuscus
Lesser Black-backed Gull
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lafus
Linnaeus, 1758
bird
Species
8489
678
528
19/03/1980
05/03/2010
1 January (recorded in 2003)
31 December (recorded in 2019)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10044>