Species Detail - Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) - 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).
Somateria mollissima
Common Eider
NBNSYS0000000197
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somol
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
353
34
31
25/03/1981
23/03/2009
1 January (recorded in 2019)
31 December (recorded in 2022)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Eider (Somateria mollissima), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10101>