Species Detail - Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023".

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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Rissa tridactyla
Black-legged Kittiwake
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ritri
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
29519
1006
689
14/07/1979
07/03/2010
1 January (recorded in 2018)
31 December (recorded in 2010)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10046>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)